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docs/index.rst

@@ -9,10 +9,14 @@ spaCy NLP Tokenizer and Lexicon
 .. toctree::
     :maxdepth: 3
     
-    guide/overview
+    guide/overview.rst
-    guide/install
+    guide/install.rst
+
     api/index.rst
 
+    modules/index.rst
+    
+
 Source (GitHub)
 ----------------
 

spacy/en.pxd

@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ cimport cython
 
 
 cdef class English(Language):
-    cpdef int _split_one(self, unicode word)
+    cdef int _split_one(self, unicode word)

spacy/en.pyx

@@ -5,22 +5,21 @@ scheme in several important respects:
 
 * Whitespace is added as tokens, except for single spaces. e.g.,
 
-    >>> [w.string for w in tokenize(u'\\nHello  \\tThere')]
+    >>> [w.string for w in EN.tokenize(u'\\nHello  \\tThere')]
     [u'\\n', u'Hello', u' ', u'\\t', u'There']
 
 * Contractions are normalized, e.g.
 
-    >>> [w.string for w in u"isn't ain't won't he's")]
+    >>> [w.string for w in EN.tokenize(u"isn't ain't won't he's")]
     [u'is', u'not', u'are', u'not', u'will', u'not', u'he', u"__s"]
   
 * Hyphenated words are split, with the hyphen preserved, e.g.:
     
-    >>> [w.string for w in tokenize(u'New York-based')]
+    >>> [w.string for w in EN.tokenize(u'New York-based')]
     [u'New', u'York', u'-', u'based']
 
 Other improvements:
 
-* Full unicode support
 * Email addresses, URLs, European-formatted dates and other numeric entities not
   found in the PTB are tokenized correctly
 * Heuristic handling of word-final periods (PTB expects sentence boundary detection
@@ -81,6 +80,13 @@ CAN_PRT = NR_FLAGS; NR_FLAGS += 1
 
 
 cdef class English(Language):
+    """English tokenizer, tightly coupled to lexicon.
+
+    Attributes:
+        name (unicode): The two letter code used by Wikipedia for the language.
+        lexicon (Lexicon): The lexicon. Exposes the lookup method.
+    """
+
     def __cinit__(self, name):
         flag_funcs = [0 for _ in range(NR_FLAGS)]
         
@@ -110,7 +116,7 @@ cdef class English(Language):
         
         Language.__init__(self, name, flag_funcs)
 
-    cpdef int _split_one(self, unicode word):
+    cdef int _split_one(self, unicode word):
         cdef size_t length = len(word)
         cdef int i = 0
         if word.startswith("'s") or word.startswith("'S"):

spacy/lang.pxd

@@ -4,21 +4,22 @@ from spacy.word cimport Lexeme
 
 
 cdef class Lexicon:
-    cdef list string_features
+    cpdef Lexeme lookup(self, unicode string)
-    cdef list flag_features
     
     cdef dict _dict
     
-    cpdef Lexeme lookup(self, unicode string)
+    cdef list _string_features
+    cdef list _flag_features
 
 
 cdef class Language:
-    cdef object name
+    cdef unicode name
     cdef dict cache
     cpdef readonly Lexicon lexicon
 
     cpdef list tokenize(self, unicode text)
+    cpdef Lexeme lookup(self, unicode text)
 
     cdef list _tokenize(self, unicode string)
-    cpdef list _split(self, unicode string)
+    cdef list _split(self, unicode string)
-    cpdef int _split_one(self, unicode word)
+    cdef int _split_one(self, unicode word)

spacy/lang.pyx

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ cdef class Language:
         rules, words, probs, clusters, case_stats, tag_stats = lang_data
         self.lexicon = Lexicon(words, probs, clusters, case_stats, tag_stats,
                                string_features, flag_features)
-        self.load_special_tokenization(rules)
+        self._load_special_tokenization(rules)
 
     cpdef list tokenize(self, unicode string):
         """Tokenize a string.
@@ -75,6 +75,17 @@ cdef class Language:
         assert tokens
         return tokens
 
+    cpdef Lexeme lookup(self, unicode string):
+        """Retrieve (or create, if not found) a Lexeme for a string, and return it.
+    
+        Args:
+            string (unicode): The string to be looked up. Must be unicode, not bytes.
+
+        Returns:
+            lexeme (Lexeme): A reference to a lexical type.
+        """
+        return self.lexicon.lookup(string)
+
     cdef list _tokenize(self, unicode string):
         if string in self.cache:
             return self.cache[string]
@@ -85,7 +96,7 @@ cdef class Language:
         self.cache[string] = lexemes
         return lexemes
 
-    cpdef list _split(self, unicode string):
+    cdef list _split(self, unicode string):
         """Find how to split a contiguous span of non-space characters into substrings.
 
         This method calls find_split repeatedly. Most languages will want to
@@ -107,10 +118,10 @@ cdef class Language:
             string = string[split:]
         return substrings
 
-    cpdef int _split_one(self, unicode word):
+    cdef int _split_one(self, unicode word):
         return len(word)
 
-    def load_special_tokenization(self, token_rules):
+    def _load_special_tokenization(self, token_rules):
         '''Load special-case tokenization rules.
 
         Loads special-case tokenization rules into the Language.cache cache,
@@ -132,14 +143,14 @@ cdef class Language:
 cdef class Lexicon:
     def __cinit__(self, words, probs, clusters, case_stats, tag_stats,
                   string_features, flag_features):
-        self.flag_features = flag_features
+        self._flag_features = flag_features
-        self.string_features = string_features
+        self._string_features = string_features
         self._dict = {}
         cdef Lexeme word
         for string in words:
             word = Lexeme(string, probs.get(string, 0.0), clusters.get(string, 0),
                           case_stats.get(string, {}), tag_stats.get(string, {}),
-                          self.string_features, self.flag_features)
+                          self._string_features, self._flag_features)
             self._dict[string] = word
 
     cpdef Lexeme lookup(self, unicode string):
@@ -155,7 +166,7 @@ cdef class Lexicon:
         if string in self._dict:
             return self._dict[string]
         
-        cdef Lexeme word = Lexeme(string, 0, 0, {}, {}, self.string_features,
+        cdef Lexeme word = Lexeme(string, 0, 0, {}, {}, self._string_features,
-                                  self.flag_features)
+                                  self._flag_features)
         self._dict[string] = word
         return word