#!/usr/bin/env python # coding: utf8 """A simple example of extracting relations between phrases and entities using spaCy's named entity recognizer and the dependency parse. Here, we extract money and currency values (entities labelled as MONEY) and then check the dependency tree to find the noun phrase they are referring to – for example: $9.4 million --> Net income. Compatible with: spaCy v2.0.0+ Last tested with: v2.2.1 """ from __future__ import unicode_literals, print_function import plac import spacy TEXTS = [ "Net income was $9.4 million compared to the prior year of $2.7 million.", "Revenue exceeded twelve billion dollars, with a loss of $1b.", ] @plac.annotations( model=("Model to load (needs parser and NER)", "positional", None, str) ) def main(model="en_core_web_sm"): nlp = spacy.load(model) print("Loaded model '%s'" % model) print("Processing %d texts" % len(TEXTS)) for text in TEXTS: doc = nlp(text) relations = extract_currency_relations(doc) for r1, r2 in relations: print("{:<10}\t{}\t{}".format(r1.text, r2.ent_type_, r2.text)) def filter_spans(spans): # Filter a sequence of spans so they don't contain overlaps # For spaCy 2.1.4+: this function is available as spacy.util.filter_spans() get_sort_key = lambda span: (span.end - span.start, -span.start) sorted_spans = sorted(spans, key=get_sort_key, reverse=True) result = [] seen_tokens = set() for span in sorted_spans: # Check for end - 1 here because boundaries are inclusive if span.start not in seen_tokens and span.end - 1 not in seen_tokens: result.append(span) seen_tokens.update(range(span.start, span.end)) result = sorted(result, key=lambda span: span.start) return result def extract_currency_relations(doc): # Merge entities and noun chunks into one token spans = list(doc.ents) + list(doc.noun_chunks) spans = filter_spans(spans) with doc.retokenize() as retokenizer: for span in spans: retokenizer.merge(span) relations = [] for money in filter(lambda w: w.ent_type_ == "MONEY", doc): if money.dep_ in ("attr", "dobj"): subject = [w for w in money.head.lefts if w.dep_ == "nsubj"] if subject: subject = subject[0] relations.append((subject, money)) elif money.dep_ == "pobj" and money.head.dep_ == "prep": relations.append((money.head.head, money)) return relations if __name__ == "__main__": plac.call(main) # Expected output: # Net income MONEY $9.4 million # the prior year MONEY $2.7 million # Revenue MONEY twelve billion dollars # a loss MONEY 1b