//- 💫 DOCS > API > VOCAB include ../../_includes/_mixins p | A look-up table that allows you to access #[code Lexeme] objects. The | #[code Vocab] instance also provides access to the #[code StringStore], | and owns underlying C-data that is shared between #[code Doc] objects. +h(2, "init") Vocab.__init__ +tag method p Create the vocabulary. +table(["Name", "Type", "Description"]) +row +cell #[code lex_attr_getters] +cell dict +cell | A dictionary mapping attribute IDs to functions to compute them. | Defaults to #[code None]. +row +cell #[code tag_map] +cell dict +cell | A dictionary mapping fine-grained tags to coarse-grained | parts-of-speech, and optionally morphological attributes. +row +cell #[code lemmatizer] +cell object +cell A lemmatizer. Defaults to #[code None]. +row +cell #[code strings] +cell #[code StringStore] +cell | A #[code StringStore] that maps strings to integers, and vice | versa. +footrow +cell returns +cell #[code Vocab] +cell The newly constructed object. +h(2, "len") Vocab.__len__ +tag method p Get the current number of lexemes in the vocabulary. +aside-code("Example"). doc = nlp(u'This is a sentence.') assert len(nlp.vocab) > 0 +table(["Name", "Type", "Description"]) +footrow +cell returns +cell int +cell The number of lexems in the vocabulary. +h(2, "getitem") Vocab.__getitem__ +tag method p | Retrieve a lexeme, given an int ID or a unicode string. If a previously | unseen unicode string is given, a new lexeme is created and stored. +aside-code("Example"). apple = nlp.vocab.strings['apple'] assert nlp.vocab[apple] == nlp.vocab[u'apple'] +table(["Name", "Type", "Description"]) +row +cell #[code id_or_string] +cell int / unicode +cell The integer ID of a word, or its unicode string. +footrow +cell returns +cell #[code Lexeme] +cell The lexeme indicated by the given ID. +h(2, "iter") Vocab.__iter__ +tag method p Iterate over the lexemes in the vocabulary. +aside-code("Example"). stop_words = (lex for lex in nlp.vocab if lex.is_stop) +table(["Name", "Type", "Description"]) +footrow +cell yields +cell #[code Lexeme] +cell An entry in the vocabulary. +h(2, "contains") Vocab.__contains__ +tag method p | Check whether the string has an entry in the vocabulary. To get the ID | for a given string, you need to look it up in | #[+api("vocab#attributes") #[code vocab.strings]]. +aside-code("Example"). apple = nlp.vocab.strings['apple'] oov = nlp.vocab.strings['dskfodkfos'] assert apple in nlp.vocab assert oov not in nlp.vocab +table(["Name", "Type", "Description"]) +row +cell #[code string] +cell unicode +cell The ID string. +footrow +cell returns +cell bool +cell Whether the string has an entry in the vocabulary. +h(2, "add_flag") Vocab.add_flag +tag method p | Set a new boolean flag to words in the vocabulary. The #[code flag_getter] | function will be called over the words currently in the vocab, and then | applied to new words as they occur. You'll then be able to access the flag | value on each token, using #[code token.check_flag(flag_id)]. +aside-code("Example"). def is_my_product(text): products = [u'spaCy', u'Thinc', u'displaCy'] return text in products MY_PRODUCT = nlp.vocab.add_flag(is_my_product) doc = nlp(u'I like spaCy') assert doc[2].check_flag(MY_PRODUCT) == True +table(["Name", "Type", "Description"]) +row +cell #[code flag_getter] +cell dict +cell A function #[code f(unicode) -> bool], to get the flag value. +row +cell #[code flag_id] +cell int +cell | An integer between 1 and 63 (inclusive), specifying the bit at | which the flag will be stored. If #[code -1], the lowest | available bit will be chosen. +footrow +cell returns +cell int +cell The integer ID by which the flag value can be checked. +h(2, "to_disk") Vocab.to_disk +tag method p Save the current state to a directory. +aside-code("Example"). nlp.vocab.to_disk('/path/to/vocab') +table(["Name", "Type", "Description"]) +row +cell #[code path] +cell unicode or #[code Path] +cell | A path to a directory, which will be created if it doesn't exist. | Paths may be either strings or #[code Path]-like objects. +h(2, "from_disk") Vocab.from_disk +tag method p Loads state from a directory. Modifies the object in place and returns it. +aside-code("Example"). from spacy.vocab import Vocab vocab = Vocab().from_disk('/path/to/vocab') +table(["Name", "Type", "Description"]) +row +cell #[code path] +cell unicode or #[code Path] +cell | A path to a directory. Paths may be either strings or | #[code Path]-like objects. +footrow +cell returns +cell #[code Vocab] +cell The modified #[code Vocab] object. +h(2, "to_bytes") Vocab.to_bytes +tag method p Serialize the current state to a binary string. +aside-code("Example"). vocab_bytes = nlp.vocab.to_bytes() +table(["Name", "Type", "Description"]) +row +cell #[code **exclude] +cell - +cell Named attributes to prevent from being serialized. +footrow +cell returns +cell bytes +cell The serialized form of the #[code Vocab] object. +h(2, "from_bytes") Vocab.from_bytes +tag method p Load state from a binary string. +aside-code("Example"). fron spacy.vocab import Vocab vocab_bytes = nlp.vocab.to_bytes() vocab = Vocab() vocab.from_bytes(vocab_bytes) +table(["Name", "Type", "Description"]) +row +cell #[code bytes_data] +cell bytes +cell The data to load from. +row +cell #[code **exclude] +cell - +cell Named attributes to prevent from being loaded. +footrow +cell returns +cell bytes +cell The serialized form of the #[code Vocab] object. +h(2, "attributes") Attributes +aside-code("Example"). apple_id = nlp.vocab.strings['apple'] assert type(apple_id) == int PERSON = nlp.vocab.strings['PERSON'] assert type(PERSON) == int +table(["Name", "Type", "Description"]) +row +cell #[code strings] +cell #[code StringStore] +cell A table managing the string-to-int mapping.