spaCy/website/docs/api/entityrecognizer.md
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EntityRecognizer class spacy/pipeline/ner.pyx Pipeline component for named entity recognition /api/pipe ner true

A transition-based named entity recognition component. The entity recognizer identifies non-overlapping labelled spans of tokens. The transition-based algorithm used encodes certain assumptions that are effective for "traditional" named entity recognition tasks, but may not be a good fit for every span identification problem. Specifically, the loss function optimizes for whole entity accuracy, so if your inter-annotator agreement on boundary tokens is low, the component will likely perform poorly on your problem. The transition-based algorithm also assumes that the most decisive information about your entities will be close to their initial tokens. If your entities are long and characterized by tokens in their middle, the component will likely not be a good fit for your task.

Config and implementation

The default config is defined by the pipeline component factory and describes how the component should be configured. You can override its settings via the config argument on nlp.add_pipe or in your config.cfg for training. See the model architectures documentation for details on the architectures and their arguments and hyperparameters.

Example

from spacy.pipeline.ner import DEFAULT_NER_MODEL
config = {
   "moves": None,
   "update_with_oracle_cut_size": 100,
   "model": DEFAULT_NER_MODEL,
}
nlp.add_pipe("ner", config=config)
Setting Description
moves A list of transition names. Inferred from the data if not provided. Defaults to None. ~~Optional[List[str]]
update_with_oracle_cut_size During training, cut long sequences into shorter segments by creating intermediate states based on the gold-standard history. The model is not very sensitive to this parameter, so you usually won't need to change it. Defaults to 100. int
model The Model powering the pipeline component. Defaults to TransitionBasedParser. Model[List[Doc], List[Floats2d]]
https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/blob/develop/spacy/pipeline/ner.pyx

EntityRecognizer.__init__

Example

# Construction via add_pipe with default model
ner = nlp.add_pipe("ner")

# Construction via add_pipe with custom model
config = {"model": {"@architectures": "my_ner"}}
parser = nlp.add_pipe("ner", config=config)

# Construction from class
from spacy.pipeline import EntityRecognizer
ner = EntityRecognizer(nlp.vocab, model)

Create a new pipeline instance. In your application, you would normally use a shortcut for this and instantiate the component using its string name and nlp.add_pipe.

Name Description
vocab The shared vocabulary. Vocab
model The Model powering the pipeline component. Model[List[Doc], List[Floats2d]]
name String name of the component instance. Used to add entries to the losses during training. str
moves A list of transition names. Inferred from the data if not provided. Optional[List[str]]
keyword-only
update_with_oracle_cut_size During training, cut long sequences into shorter segments by creating intermediate states based on the gold-standard history. The model is not very sensitive to this parameter, so you usually won't need to change it. 100 is a good default. int

EntityRecognizer.__call__

Apply the pipe to one document. The document is modified in place, and returned. This usually happens under the hood when the nlp object is called on a text and all pipeline components are applied to the Doc in order. Both __call__ and pipe delegate to the predict and set_annotations methods.

Example

doc = nlp("This is a sentence.")
ner = nlp.add_pipe("ner")
# This usually happens under the hood
processed = ner(doc)
Name Description
doc The document to process. Doc
RETURNS The processed document. Doc

EntityRecognizer.pipe

Apply the pipe to a stream of documents. This usually happens under the hood when the nlp object is called on a text and all pipeline components are applied to the Doc in order. Both __call__ and pipe delegate to the predict and set_annotations methods.

Example

ner = nlp.add_pipe("ner")
for doc in ner.pipe(docs, batch_size=50):
    pass
Name Description
docs A stream of documents. Iterable[Doc]
keyword-only
batch_size The number of documents to buffer. Defaults to 128. int
YIELDS The processed documents in order. Doc

EntityRecognizer.begin_training

Initialize the component for training and return an Optimizer. get_examples should be a function that returns an iterable of Example objects. The data examples are used to initialize the model of the component and can either be the full training data or a representative sample. Initialization includes validating the network, inferring missing shapes and setting up the label scheme based on the data.

Example

ner = nlp.add_pipe("ner")
optimizer = ner.begin_training(lambda: [], pipeline=nlp.pipeline)
Name Description
get_examples Function that returns gold-standard annotations in the form of Example objects. Callable], Iterable[Example
keyword-only
pipeline Optional list of pipeline components that this component is part of. Optional[List[Tuple[str, CallableDoc], Doc]]
sgd An optimizer. Will be created via create_optimizer if not set. Optional[Optimizer]
RETURNS The optimizer. Optimizer

EntityRecognizer.predict

Apply the component's model to a batch of Doc objects, without modifying them.

Example

ner = nlp.add_pipe("ner")
scores = ner.predict([doc1, doc2])
Name Description
docs The documents to predict. Iterable[Doc]
RETURNS A helper class for the parse state (internal). StateClass

EntityRecognizer.set_annotations

Modify a batch of Doc objects, using pre-computed scores.

Example

ner = nlp.add_pipe("ner")
scores = ner.predict([doc1, doc2])
ner.set_annotations([doc1, doc2], scores)
Name Description
docs The documents to modify. Iterable[Doc]
scores The scores to set, produced by EntityRecognizer.predict. Returns an internal helper class for the parse state. List[StateClass]

EntityRecognizer.update

Learn from a batch of Example objects, updating the pipe's model. Delegates to predict and get_loss.

Example

ner = nlp.add_pipe("ner")
optimizer = nlp.begin_training()
losses = ner.update(examples, sgd=optimizer)
Name Description
examples A batch of Example objects to learn from. Iterable[Example]
keyword-only
drop The dropout rate. float
set_annotations Whether or not to update the Example objects with the predictions, delegating to set_annotations. bool
sgd An optimizer. Will be created via create_optimizer if not set. Optional[Optimizer]
losses Optional record of the loss during training. Updated using the component name as the key. Optional[Dict[str, float]]
RETURNS The updated losses dictionary. Dict[str, float]

EntityRecognizer.get_loss

Find the loss and gradient of loss for the batch of documents and their predicted scores.

Example

ner = nlp.add_pipe("ner")
scores = ner.predict([eg.predicted for eg in examples])
loss, d_loss = ner.get_loss(examples, scores)
Name Description
examples The batch of examples. Iterable[Example]
scores Scores representing the model's predictions. StateClass
RETURNS The loss and the gradient, i.e. (loss, gradient). Tuple[float, float]

EntityRecognizer.score

Score a batch of examples.

Example

scores = ner.score(examples)
Name Description
examples The examples to score. Iterable[Example]
RETURNS The scores, produced by Scorer.score_spans. Dict[str, Union[float, Dict[str, float]]]

EntityRecognizer.create_optimizer

Create an optimizer for the pipeline component.

Example

ner = nlp.add_pipe("ner")
optimizer = ner.create_optimizer()
Name Description
RETURNS The optimizer. Optimizer

EntityRecognizer.use_params

Modify the pipe's model, to use the given parameter values. At the end of the context, the original parameters are restored.

Example

ner = EntityRecognizer(nlp.vocab)
with ner.use_params(optimizer.averages):
    ner.to_disk("/best_model")
Name Description
params The parameter values to use in the model. dict

EntityRecognizer.add_label

Add a new label to the pipe.

Example

ner = nlp.add_pipe("ner")
ner.add_label("MY_LABEL")
Name Description
label The label to add. str
RETURNS 0 if the label is already present, otherwise 1. int

EntityRecognizer.to_disk

Serialize the pipe to disk.

Example

ner = nlp.add_pipe("ner")
ner.to_disk("/path/to/ner")
Name Description
path A path to a directory, which will be created if it doesn't exist. Paths may be either strings or Path-like objects. Union[str, Path]
keyword-only
exclude String names of serialization fields to exclude. Iterable[str]

EntityRecognizer.from_disk

Load the pipe from disk. Modifies the object in place and returns it.

Example

ner = nlp.add_pipe("ner")
ner.from_disk("/path/to/ner")
Name Description
path A path to a directory. Paths may be either strings or Path-like objects. Union[str, Path]
keyword-only
exclude String names of serialization fields to exclude. Iterable[str]
RETURNS The modified EntityRecognizer object. EntityRecognizer

EntityRecognizer.to_bytes

Example

ner = nlp.add_pipe("ner")
ner_bytes = ner.to_bytes()

Serialize the pipe to a bytestring.

Name Description
keyword-only
exclude String names of serialization fields to exclude. Iterable[str]
RETURNS The serialized form of the EntityRecognizer object. bytes

EntityRecognizer.from_bytes

Load the pipe from a bytestring. Modifies the object in place and returns it.

Example

ner_bytes = ner.to_bytes()
ner = nlp.add_pipe("ner")
ner.from_bytes(ner_bytes)
Name Description
bytes_data The data to load from. bytes
keyword-only
exclude String names of serialization fields to exclude. Iterable[str]
RETURNS The EntityRecognizer object. EntityRecognizer

EntityRecognizer.labels

The labels currently added to the component.

Example

ner.add_label("MY_LABEL")
assert "MY_LABEL" in ner.labels
Name Description
RETURNS The labels added to the component. Tuple[str, ...]

Serialization fields

During serialization, spaCy will export several data fields used to restore different aspects of the object. If needed, you can exclude them from serialization by passing in the string names via the exclude argument.

Example

data = ner.to_disk("/path", exclude=["vocab"])
Name Description
vocab The shared Vocab.
cfg The config file. You usually don't want to exclude this.
model The binary model data. You usually don't want to exclude this.