* Replace all basestring references with unicode
`basestring` was a compatability type introduced by Cython to make
dealing with utf-8 strings in Python2 easier. In Python3 it is
equivalent to the unicode (or str) type.
I replaced all references to basestring with unicode, since that was
used elsewhere, but we could also just replace them with str, which
shoudl also be equivalent.
All tests pass locally.
* Replace all references to unicode type with str
Since we only support python3 this is simpler.
* Remove all references to unicode type
This removes all references to the unicode type across the codebase and
replaces them with `str`, which makes it more drastic than the prior
commits. In order to make this work importing `unicode_literals` had to
be removed, and one explicit unicode literal also had to be removed (it
is unclear why this is necessary in Cython with language level 3, but
without doing it there were errors about implicit conversion).
When `unicode` is used as a type in comments it was also edited to be
`str`.
Additionally `coding: utf8` headers were removed from a few files.
* unit test for pickling KB
* add pickling test for NEL
* KB to_bytes and from_bytes
* NEL to_bytes and from_bytes
* xfail pickle tests for now
* fix docs
* cleanup
* rename Pipe to TrainablePipe
* split functionality between Pipe and TrainablePipe
* remove unnecessary methods from certain components
* cleanup
* hasattr(component, "pipe") should be sufficient again
* remove serialization and vocab/cfg from Pipe
* unify _ensure_examples and validate_examples
* small fixes
* hasattr checks for self.cfg and self.vocab
* make is_resizable and is_trainable properties
* serialize strings.json instead of vocab
* fix KB IO + tests
* fix typos
* more typos
* _added_strings as a set
* few more tests specifically for _added_strings field
* bump to 3.0.0a36
* NEL: read sentences and ents from reference
* fiddling with sent_start annotations
* add KB serialization test
* KB write additional file with strings.json
* score_links function to calculate NEL P/R/F
* formatting
* documentation
* candidate generator as separate part of EL config
* update comment
* ent instead of str as input for candidate generation
* Span instead of str: correct type indication
* fix types
* unit test to create new candidate generator
* fix replace_pipe argument passing
* move error message, general cleanup
* add vocab back to KB constructor
* provide KB as callable from Vocab arg
* rename to kb_loader, fix KB serialization as part of the EL pipe
* fix typo
* reformatting
* cleanup
* fix comment
* fix wrongly duplicated code from merge conflict
* rename dump to to_disk
* from_disk instead of load_bulk
* update test after recent removal of set_morphology in tagger
* remove old doc
* fix overflow error on windows
* more documentation & logging fixes
* md fix
* 3 different limit parameters to play with execution time
* bug fixes directory locations
* small fixes
* exclude dev test articles from prior probabilities stats
* small fixes
* filtering wikidata entities, removing numeric and meta items
* adding aliases from wikidata also to the KB
* fix adding WD aliases
* adding also new aliases to previously added entities
* fixing comma's
* small doc fixes
* adding subclassof filtering
* append alias functionality in KB
* prevent appending the same entity-alias pair
* fix for appending WD aliases
* remove date filter
* remove unnecessary import
* small corrections and reformatting
* remove WD aliases for now (too slow)
* removing numeric entities from training and evaluation
* small fixes
* shortcut during prediction if there is only one candidate
* add counts and fscore logging, remove FP NER from evaluation
* fix entity_linker.predict to take docs instead of single sentences
* remove enumeration sentences from the WP dataset
* entity_linker.update to process full doc instead of single sentence
* spelling corrections and dump locations in readme
* NLP IO fix
* reading KB is unnecessary at the end of the pipeline
* small logging fix
* remove empty files
* document token ent_kb_id
* document span kb_id
* update pipeline documentation
* prior and context weights as bool's instead
* entitylinker api documentation
* drop for both models
* finish entitylinker documentation
* small fixes
* documentation for KB
* candidate documentation
* links to api pages in code
* small fix
* frequency examples as counts for consistency
* consistent documentation about tensors returned by predict
* add entity linking to usage 101
* add entity linking infobox and KB section to 101
* entity-linking in linguistic features
* small typo corrections
* training example and docs for entity_linker
* predefined nlp and kb
* revert back to similarity encodings for simplicity (for now)
* set prior probabilities to 0 when excluded
* code clean up
* bugfix: deleting kb ID from tokens when entities were removed
* refactor train el example to use either model or vocab
* pretrain_kb example for example kb generation
* add to training docs for KB + EL example scripts
* small fixes
* error numbering
* ensure the language of vocab and nlp stay consistent across serialization
* equality with =
* avoid conflict in errors file
* add error 151
* final adjustements to the train scripts - consistency
* update of goldparse documentation
* small corrections
* push commit
* typo fix
* add candidate API to kb documentation
* update API sidebar with EntityLinker and KnowledgeBase
* remove EL from 101 docs
* remove entity linker from 101 pipelines / rephrase
* custom el model instead of existing model
* set version to 2.2 for EL functionality
* update documentation for 2 CLI scripts
* document token ent_kb_id
* document span kb_id
* update pipeline documentation
* prior and context weights as bool's instead
* entitylinker api documentation
* drop for both models
* finish entitylinker documentation
* small fixes
* documentation for KB
* candidate documentation
* links to api pages in code
* small fix
* frequency examples as counts for consistency
* consistent documentation about tensors returned by predict
* add entity linking to usage 101
* add entity linking infobox and KB section to 101
* entity-linking in linguistic features
* small typo corrections
* training example and docs for entity_linker
* predefined nlp and kb
* revert back to similarity encodings for simplicity (for now)
* set prior probabilities to 0 when excluded
* code clean up
* bugfix: deleting kb ID from tokens when entities were removed
* refactor train el example to use either model or vocab
* pretrain_kb example for example kb generation
* add to training docs for KB + EL example scripts
* small fixes
* error numbering
* ensure the language of vocab and nlp stay consistent across serialization
* equality with =
* avoid conflict in errors file
* add error 151
* final adjustements to the train scripts - consistency
* update of goldparse documentation
* small corrections
* push commit
* turn kb_creator into CLI script (wip)
* proper parameters for training entity vectors
* wikidata pipeline split up into two executable scripts
* remove context_width
* move wikidata scripts in bin directory, remove old dummy script
* refine KB script with logs and preprocessing options
* small edits
* small improvements to logging of EL CLI script
