Update docs on rule-based matching and add examples

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+list("numbers")
+item
| A token whose #[strong lower-case form matches "hello"], e.g. "Hello"
| A token whose #[strong lowercase form matches "hello"], e.g. "Hello"
| or "HELLO".
+item
| A token whose #[strong #[code is_punct] flag is set to #[code True]],
| i.e. any punctuation.
+item
| A token whose #[strong lower-case form matches "world"], e.g. "World"
| A token whose #[strong lowercase form matches "world"], e.g. "World"
| or "WORLD".
+code.
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nlp = spacy.load('en')
matcher = Matcher(nlp.vocab)
matcher.add('GoogleIO', on_match=add_event_ent,
[{'ORTH': 'Google'}, {'UPPER': 'I'}, {'ORTH': '/'}, {'UPPER': 'O'}],
[{'ORTH': 'Google'}, {'UPPER': 'I'}, {'ORTH': '/'}, {'UPPER': 'O'}, {'IS_DIGIT': True}])
# Get the ID of the 'EVENT' entity type. This is required to set an entity.
EVENT = nlp.vocab.strings['EVENT']
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match_id, start, end = matches[i]
doc.ents += ((EVENT, start, end),)
matcher.add('GoogleIO', on_match=add_event_ent,
[{'ORTH': 'Google'}, {'UPPER': 'I'}, {'ORTH': '/'}, {'UPPER': 'O'}],
[{'ORTH': 'Google'}, {'UPPER': 'I'}, {'ORTH': '/'}, {'UPPER': 'O'}, {'IS_DIGIT': True}])
p
| In addition to mentions of "Google I/O", your data also contains some
| annoying pre-processing artefacts, like leftover HTML line breaks
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| function #[code merge_and_flag]:
+code.
matcher.add('BAD_HTML', on_match=merge_and_flag,
[{'ORTH': '<'}, {'LOWER': 'br'}, {'ORTH': '>'}],
[{'ORTH': '<'}, {'LOWER': 'br/'}, {'ORTH': '>'}])
# Add a new custom flag to the vocab, which is always False by default.
# BAD_HTML_FLAG will be the flag ID, which we can use to set it to True on the span.
BAD_HTML_FLAG = doc.vocab.add_flag(lambda text: False)
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span.merge(is_stop=True) # merge (and mark it as a stop word, just in case)
span.set_flag(BAD_HTML_FLAG, True) # set BAD_HTML_FLAG
matcher.add('BAD_HTML', on_match=merge_and_flag,
[{'ORTH': '<'}, {'LOWER': 'br'}, {'ORTH': '>'}],
[{'ORTH': '<'}, {'LOWER': 'br/'}, {'ORTH': '>'}])
+aside("Tip: Visualizing matches")
| When working with entities, you can use #[+api("displacy") displaCy]
| to quickly generate a NER visualization from your updated #[code Doc],
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p
| We can now call the matcher on our documents. The patterns will be
| matched in the order they occur in the text.
| matched in the order they occur in the text. The matcher will then
| iterate over the matches, look up the callback for the match ID
| that was matched, and invoke it.
+code.
doc = nlp(LOTS_OF_TEXT)
matcher(doc)
+h(3, "on_match-callback") The callback function
p
| The matcher will first collect all matches over the document. It will
| then iterate over the matches, lookup the callback for the entity ID
| that was matched, and invoke it. When the callback is invoked, it is
| When the callback is invoked, it is
| passed four arguments: the matcher itself, the document, the position of
| the current match, and the total list of matches. This allows you to
| write callbacks that consider the entire set of matched phrases, so that
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+cell
| A list of #[code (match_id, start, end)] tuples, describing the
| matches. A match tuple describes a span #[code doc[start:end]].
| The #[code match_id] is the ID of the added match pattern.
+h(2, "quantifiers") Using quantifiers
+h(2, "quantifiers") Using operators and quantifiers
+table([ "Name", "Description", "Example"])
p
| The matcher also lets you use quantifiers, specified as the #[code 'OP']
| key. Quantifiers let you define sequences of tokens to be mached, e.g.
| one or more punctuation marks, or specify optional tokens. Note that there
| are no nested or scoped quantifiers instead, you can build those
| behaviours with #[code on_match] callbacks.
+aside("Problems with quantifiers")
| Using quantifiers may lead to unexpected results when matching
| variable-length patterns, for example if the next token would also be
| matched by the previous token. This problem should be resolved in a future
| release. For more information, see
| #[+a(gh("spaCy") + "/issues/864") this issue].
+table([ "OP", "Description", "Example"])
+row
+cell #[code !]
+cell match exactly 0 times
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+cell match 0 or 1 times
+cell optional, max one
+h(3, "quantifiers-example1") Quantifiers example: Using linguistic annotations
p
| There are no nested or scoped quantifiers. You can build those
| behaviours with #[code on_match] callbacks.
| Let's say you're analysing user comments and you want to find out what
| people are saying about Facebook. You want to start off by finding
| adjectives following "Facebook is" or "Facebook was". This is obviously
| a very rudimentary solution, but it'll be fast, and a great way get an
| idea for what's in your data. Your pattern could look like this:
+code.
[{'LOWER': 'facebook'}, {'LEMMA': 'be'}, {'POS': 'ADV', 'OP': '*'}, {'POS': 'ADJ'}]
p
| This translates to a token whose lowercase form matches "facebook"
| (like Facebook, facebook or FACEBOOK), followed by a token with the lemma
| "be" (for example, is, was, or 's), followed by an #[strong optional] adverb,
| followed by an adjective. Using the linguistic annotations here is
| especially useful, because you can tell spaCy to match "Facebook's
| annoying", but #[strong not] "Facebook's annoying ads". The optional
| adverb makes sure you won't miss adjectives with intensifiers, like
| "pretty awful" or "very nice".
p
| To get a quick overview of the results, you could collect all sentences
| containing a match and render them with the
| #[+a("/docs/usage/visualizers") displaCy visualizer].
| In the callback function, you'll have access to the #[code start] and
| #[code end] of each match, as well as the parent #[code Doc]. This lets
| you determine the sentence containing the match,
| #[code doc[start : end].sent], and calculate the start and end of the
| matched span within the sentence. Using displaCy in
| #[+a("/docs/usage/visualizers#manual-usage") "manual" mode] lets you
| pass in a list of dictionaries containing the text and entities to render.
+code.
from spacy import displacy
from spacy.matcher import Matcher
nlp = spacy.load('en')
matcher = Matcher(nlp.vocab)
matched_sents = [] # collect data of matched sentences to be visualized
def collect_sents(matcher, doc, i, matches):
match_id, start, end = matches[i]
span = doc[start : end] # matched span
sent = span.sent # sentence containing matched span
# append mock entity for match in displaCy style to matched_sents
# get the match span by ofsetting the start and end of the span with the
# start and end of the sentence in the doc
match_ents = [{'start': span.start-sent.start, 'end': span.end-sent.start,
'label': 'MATCH'}]
matched_sents.append({'text': sent.text, 'ents': match_ents })
pattern = [{'LOWER': 'facebook'}, {'LEMMA': 'be'}, {'POS': 'ADV', 'OP': '*'},
{'POS': 'ADJ'}]
matcher.add('FacebookIs', collect_sents, pattern) # add pattern
matches = matcher(nlp(LOTS_OF_TEXT)) # match on your text
# serve visualization of sentences containing match with displaCy
# set manual=True to make displaCy render straight from a dictionary
displacy.serve(matched_sents, style='ent', manual=True)
+h(3, "quantifiers-example2") Quantifiers example: Phone numbers
p
| Phone numbers can have many different formats and matching them is often
| tricky. During tokenization, spaCy will leave sequences of numbers intact
| and only split on whitespace and punctuation. This means that your match
| pattern will have to look out for number sequences of a certain length,
| surrounded by specific punctuation depending on the
| #[+a("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_conventions_for_writing_telephone_numbers") national conventions].
p
| The #[code IS_DIGIT] flag is not very helpful here, because it doesn't
| tell us anything about the length. However, you can use the #[code SHAPE]
| flag, with each #[code d] representing a digit:
+code.
[{'ORTH': '('}, {'SHAPE': 'ddd'}, {'ORTH': ')'}, {'SHAPE': 'dddd'},
{'ORTH': '-', 'OP': '?'}, {'SHAPE': 'dddd'}]
p
| This will match phone numbers of the format #[strong (123) 4567 8901] or
| #[strong (123) 4567-8901]. To also match formats like #[strong (123) 456 789],
| you can add a second pattern using #[code 'ddd'] in place of #[code 'dddd'].
| By hard-coding some values, you can match only certain, country-specific
| numbers. For example, here's a pattern to match the most common formats of
| #[+a("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_conventions_for_writing_telephone_numbers#Germany") international German numbers]:
+code.
[{'ORTH': '+'}, {'ORTH': '49'}, {'ORTH': '(', 'OP': '?'}, {'SHAPE': 'dddd'},
{'ORTH': ')', 'OP': '?'}, {'SHAPE': 'dddddd'}]
p
| Depending on the formats your application needs to match, creating an
| extensive set of rules like this is often better than training a model.
| It'll produce more predictable results, is much easier to modify and
| extend, and doesn't require any training data only a set of
| test cases.