spaCy/docs/source/features.rst

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Lexeme Features
===============
A lexeme is an entry in the lexicon --- the vocabulary --- for a word, punctuation
symbol, whitespace unit, etc. Lexemes come with lots of pre-computed information,
that help you write good feature functions. Features are integer-valued where
possible --- instead of strings, spaCy refers to strings by consecutive ID numbers,
which you can use to look up the string values if necessary.
String features
---------------
+---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
| SIC | The word as it appeared in the sentence, unaltered. |
+---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NORM | For frequent words, case normalization is applied. |
| | Otherwise, back-off to SHAPE. |
+---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
| SHAPE | Remap the characters of the word as follows: |
| | |
| | a-z --> x, A-Z --> X, 0-9 --> d, ,.;:"'?!$- --> self, other --> \*|
| | |
| | Trim sequences of length 3+ to 3, e.g |
| | |
| | apples --> xxx, Apples --> Xxxx, app9LES@ --> xxx9XXX* |
+---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
| ASCIIED | Use unidecode.unidecode(sic) to approximate the word using the |
| | ascii characters. |
+---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
| PREFIX | sic_unicode_string[:1] |
+---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
| SUFFIX | sic_unicode_string[-3:] |
+---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
Integer features
----------------
+--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| LENGTH | Length of the string, in unicode |
+--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| CLUSTER | Brown cluster |
+--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| POS_TYPE | K-means cluster of word's tag affinities |
+--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| SENSE_TYPE | K-means cluster of word's sense affinities |
+--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
Boolean features
----------------
+-------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| IS_ALPHA | The result of sic.isalpha() |
+-------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| IS_ASCII | Check whether all the word's characters are ascii characters |
+-------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| IS_DIGIT | The result of sic.isdigit() |
+-------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| IS_LOWER | The result of sic.islower() |
+-------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| IS_PUNCT | Check whether all characters are in the class TODO |
+-------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| IS_SPACE | The result of sic.isspace() |
+-------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| IS_TITLE | The result of sic.istitle() |
+-------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| IS_UPPER | The result of sic.isupper() |
+-------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| LIKE_URL | Check whether the string looks like it could be a URL. Aims |
| | for low false negative rate. |
+-------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| LIKE_NUMBER | Check whether the string looks like it could be a numeric |
| | entity, e.g. 10,000 10th .10 . Skews for low false negative |
| | rate. |
+-------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| IN_LIST | Facility for loading arbitrary run-time word lists? |
+-------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+