#!/usr/bin/env python # coding: utf8 """Example of training spaCy's named entity recognizer, starting off with an existing model or a blank model. For more details, see the documentation: * Training: https://alpha.spacy.io/usage/training * NER: https://alpha.spacy.io/usage/linguistic-features#named-entities Compatible with: spaCy v2.0.0+ """ from __future__ import unicode_literals, print_function import plac import random from pathlib import Path import spacy # training data TRAIN_DATA = [ ('Who is Shaka Khan?', { 'entities': [(7, 17, 'PERSON')] }), ('I like London and Berlin.', { 'entities': [(7, 13, 'LOC'), (18, 24, 'LOC')] }) ] @plac.annotations( model=("Model name. Defaults to blank 'en' model.", "option", "m", str), output_dir=("Optional output directory", "option", "o", Path), n_iter=("Number of training iterations", "option", "n", int)) def main(model=None, output_dir=None, n_iter=100): """Load the model, set up the pipeline and train the entity recognizer.""" if model is not None: nlp = spacy.load(model) # load existing spaCy model print("Loaded model '%s'" % model) else: nlp = spacy.blank('en') # create blank Language class print("Created blank 'en' model") # create the built-in pipeline components and add them to the pipeline # nlp.create_pipe works for built-ins that are registered with spaCy if 'ner' not in nlp.pipe_names: ner = nlp.create_pipe('ner') nlp.add_pipe(ner, last=True) # otherwise, get it so we can add labels else: ner = nlp.get_pipe('ner') # add labels for _, annotations in TRAIN_DATA: for ent in annotations.get('entities'): ner.add_label(ent[2]) # get names of other pipes to disable them during training other_pipes = [pipe for pipe in nlp.pipe_names if pipe != 'ner'] with nlp.disable_pipes(*other_pipes): # only train NER optimizer = nlp.begin_training() for itn in range(n_iter): random.shuffle(TRAIN_DATA) losses = {} for text, annotations in TRAIN_DATA: nlp.update( [text], # batch of texts [annotations], # batch of annotations drop=0.5, # dropout - make it harder to memorise data sgd=optimizer, # callable to update weights losses=losses) print(losses) # test the trained model for text, _ in TRAIN_DATA: doc = nlp(text) print('Entities', [(ent.text, ent.label_) for ent in doc.ents]) print('Tokens', [(t.text, t.ent_type_, t.ent_iob) for t in doc]) # save model to output directory if output_dir is not None: output_dir = Path(output_dir) if not output_dir.exists(): output_dir.mkdir() nlp.to_disk(output_dir) print("Saved model to", output_dir) # test the saved model print("Loading from", output_dir) nlp2 = spacy.load(output_dir) for text, _ in TRAIN_DATA: doc = nlp2(text) print('Entities', [(ent.text, ent.label_) for ent in doc.ents]) print('Tokens', [(t.text, t.ent_type_, t.ent_iob) for t in doc]) if __name__ == '__main__': plac.call(main) # Expected output: # Entities [('Shaka Khan', 'PERSON')] # Tokens [('Who', '', 2), ('is', '', 2), ('Shaka', 'PERSON', 3), # ('Khan', 'PERSON', 1), ('?', '', 2)] # Entities [('London', 'LOC'), ('Berlin', 'LOC')] # Tokens [('I', '', 2), ('like', '', 2), ('London', 'LOC', 3), # ('and', '', 2), ('Berlin', 'LOC', 3), ('.', '', 2)]