Collocater

Collocater is a Python library for retrieving the collocations to be found in a message. The ontology it operates on has been scraped from the Online OXFORD Collocation Dictionary.

Collocater can be added as a pipeline component to SpaCy's preprocessing pipeline, so that a messages' collocations can be retrireved the same way its named entities can.

Check out Collocations Finder to learn more about the project.

Installation

pip install collocater --no-deps

Usage

from collocater import collocater
import spacy
from pprint import pprint

collie = collocater.Collocater.loader()
nlp = spacy.load('en_core_web_sm')
nlp.add_pipe(collie)

text = "If this isn't a bunch of beautiful flowers I don't know what is!"
doc = nlp(text)
print(doc._.collocs) # returns [bunch of, bunch of beautiful flowers, beautiful flowers]

#Tokens with associated collocations in text:
colls = [(col.text, col.start_char, col.end_char, col.label_) for col in doc._.collocs]
pprint(colls) # returns [
#                          ('bunch of', 16, 24, 'bunch_noun__prep'),
#                          ('bunch of beautiful flowers', 16, 42, 'flower_noun__quant'),
#                          ('beautiful flowers', 25, 42, 'flower_noun__adj')
#                          ]

print(collie(text))
#{'beautiful flowers': {'coll_type': 'flower_noun__adj', 'location': [7, 9]},
# 'bunch of': {'coll_type': 'bunch_noun__prep', 'location': [5, 7]},
# 'bunch of beautiful flowers': {'coll_type': 'flower_noun__quant',
#                                'location': [5, 9]}}

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

Please make sure to update tests as appropriate.

License

MIT