WIP on training example

examples/training/train_new_entity_type.py

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+from __future__ import unicode_literals, print_function
+import json
+import pathlib
+import random
+
+import spacy
+from spacy.pipeline import EntityRecognizer
+from spacy.gold import GoldParse
+from spacy.tagger import Tagger
+
+ 
+try:
+    unicode
+except:
+    unicode = str
+
+
+def train_ner(nlp, train_data, output_dir):
+    # Add new words to vocab.
+    for raw_text, _ in train_data:
+        doc = nlp.make_doc(raw_text)
+        for word in doc:
+            _ = nlp.vocab[word.orth]
+
+    for itn in range(20):
+        random.shuffle(train_data)
+        for raw_text, entity_offsets in train_data:
+            gold = GoldParse(doc, entities=entity_offsets)
+            doc = nlp.make_doc(raw_text)
+            nlp.tagger(doc)
+            loss = nlp.entity.update(doc, gold)
+    nlp.save_to_directory(output_dir)
+    #nlp.end_training(output_dir)
+
+
+def main(model_name, output_directory=None):
+    nlp = spacy.load(model_name)
+
+    train_data = [
+        (
+            "Horses are too tall and they pretend to care about your feelings",
+            [(0, 6, 'ANIMAL')],
+        ),
+        (
+            "horses are too tall and they pretend to care about your feelings",
+            [(0, 6, 'ANIMAL')]
+        ),
+        (
+            "horses pretend to care about your feelings",
+            [(0, 6, 'ANIMAL')]
+        ),
+        (
+            "they pretend to care about your feelings, those horses",
+            [(48, 54, 'ANIMAL')]
+        )
+    ]
+    nlp.entity.add_label('ANIMAL')
+    if output_directory is not None:
+        output_directory = pathlib.Path(output_directory)
+    ner = train_ner(nlp, train_data, output_directory)
+
+    doc = nlp('Do you like horses?')
+    for ent in doc.ents:
+        print(ent.label_, ent.text)
+    nlp2 = spacy.load('en', path=output_directory)
+    nlp2.entity.add_label('ANIMAL')
+    doc2 = nlp2('Do you like horses?')
+    for ent in doc2.ents:
+        print(ent.label_, ent.text)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    import plac
+    plac.call(main)