从句子列表创建标记是返回字符而不是单词

Creating tokens from list of sentences is returning characters instead of words

from nltk.tokenize import sent_tokenize

text = open(path).read().lower().decode("utf8")
sent_tokenize_list = sent_tokenize(text)

tokens = [w for w in itertools.chain(*[sent for sent in sent_tokenize_list])]

最后一行,"tokens",returns个字符代替单词。

为什么会这样,我如何将它变成 return 个单词?特别是考虑基于句子列表来做。

因为 sent_tokenize returns a list of string sentences and itertools.chain 将可迭代链接到单个可迭代 returning 项目,一次一个,直到它们耗尽。实际上,您已将句子重新组合为单个字符串并在列表理解中对其进行迭代。

要从句子列表中创建单个单词列表,例如您可以拆分和展平:

tokens = [word for sent in sent_tokenize_list for word in sent.split()]

这不处理标点符号,但您最初的尝试也不会。您的原件也适用于 split:

tokens = [w for w in itertools.chain(*(sent.split()
                                       for sent in sent_tokenize_list))]

请注意,您可以使用生成器表达式而不是列表理解作为解包的参数。更好的是,使用 chain.from_iterable:

tokens = [w for w in itertools.chain.from_iterable(
    sent.split() for sent in sent_tokenize_list)]

对于标点符号处理,请使用 nltk.tokenize.word_tokenize 而不是 str.split。它将 return 单词和标点符号作为单独的项目,并拆分例如 I'sI's (这当然是一件好事,因为它们实际上是分开的话,只是简写)。

也许你应该使用 word_tokenize 而不是 sent_tokenize

from nltk.tokenize import word_tokenize

text = open(path).read().lower().decode("utf8")
tokens = word_tokenize(text)

http://www.nltk.org/api/nltk.tokenize.html#nltk.tokenize.word_tokenize

首先,如果文件在'utf8'中,而你使用的是Python2,那么在io.open()中使用encoding='utf8'参数会更好:

import io

from nltk import word_tokenize, sent_tokenize

with io.open('file.txt', 'r', encoding='utf8') as fin:
    document = []
    for line in fin:
        tokens += [word_tokenize(sent) for sent in sent_tokenize(line)]

如果是 Python3,只需执行:

from nltk import word_tokenize 

with open('file.txt', 'r') as fin:
    document = []
    for line in fin:
        tokens += [word_tokenize(sent) for sent in sent_tokenize(line)]

看看http://nedbatchelder.com/text/unipain.html


关于标记化,如果我们假设每一行包含某种可能由一个或多个句子组成的段落,我们想首先初始化一个列表来存储整个文档:

document = []

然后我们遍历行并将行拆分为句子:

for line in fin:
    sentences = sent_tokenize(line)

然后我们将句子分成标记:

token = [word_tokenize(sent) for sent in sent_tokenize(line)]

由于我们要更新我们的文档列表来存储标记化的句子,我们使用:

document = []
for line in fin:
    tokens += [word_tokenize(sent) for sent in sent_tokenize(line)]

不推荐!!!(但仍然可以在一行中):

alvas@ubi:~$ cat file.txt
this is a paragph. with many sentences.
yes, hahaah.. wahahha... 
alvas@ubi:~$ python
Python 2.7.11+ (default, Apr 17 2016, 14:00:29) 
[GCC 5.3.1 20160413] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import io
>>> from itertools import chain
>>> from nltk import sent_tokenize, word_tokenize
>>> list(chain(*[[word_tokenize(sent) for sent in sent_tokenize(line)] for line in io.open('file.txt', 'r', encoding='utf8')]))
[[u'this', u'is', u'a', u'paragph', u'.'], [u'with', u'many', u'sentences', u'.'], [u'yes', u',', u'hahaah..', u'wahahha', u'...']]