spaCy/spacy/lang/en/lex_attrs.py

from ...attrs import LIKE_NUM

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_num_words = [
    "zero", "one", "two", "three", "four", "five", "six", "seven", "eight",
    "nine", "ten", "eleven", "twelve", "thirteen", "fourteen", "fifteen",
    "sixteen", "seventeen", "eighteen", "nineteen", "twenty", "thirty", "forty",
    "fifty", "sixty", "seventy", "eighty", "ninety", "hundred", "thousand",
    "million", "billion", "trillion", "quadrillion", "gajillion", "bazillion"
]
# fmt: on


def like_num(text: str) -> bool:
    if text.startswith(("+", "-", "±", "~")):
        text = text[1:]
    text = text.replace(",", "").replace(".", "")
    if text.isdigit():
        return True
    if text.count("/") == 1:
        num, denom = text.split("/")
        if num.isdigit() and denom.isdigit():
            return True
    if text.lower() in _num_words:
        return True
    return False


LEX_ATTRS = {LIKE_NUM: like_num}