API to access Portuguese Literary Corpus
Project description
litcorpt
LITerary CORpus in PorTuguese is a API to access a literary corpus in portuguese language.
The API provides access to the corpus without all the fuzz to download and write a loader for different types of data sources. It is exposed as a simple document database.
How to install.
Simply:
pip install litcorpt
Getting started
After installation in you Python just
import litcorpt
from pprint import pprint as pp
corpus_db = litcorpt.corpus_load()
print(f'There are {len(corpus_db)} documents in corpus')
It will load the whole corpus. When running by the first time, it will download from internet, process and build the whole dataset.
The download size is around 600MB and is automaticly handled by the library. It is downloaded just at first time you load it. After the first time it will load from local disk. The time to load data locally takes around 6 seconds. This value was measured in my own computer (your mileage may vary).
Basic Usage
Most of time you just want to retrieve the whole corpus as a list
of text
documents. You can do that with this one liner.
corpus = litcorpt.corpus(corpus_db)
This operation just append to a list all contents for all documents. Since a document may have more than one content.
Advanced usage
Besides the fetchall usage, many custom queries can be done. Is possible to search by matches, regexes, fields.
Book metadata
To retrieve metadata from all books
metadata = litcorpt.metadata(corpus_db)
Metadata will be a list of books (model.Book). Each i-th element is a metadata
related to i-th text from corpus
variable from last example.
You can convert this book metadata to a dictionary with
metadata[0].dict(exclude_none=True, exclude_defaults=True)
or to a JSON object
metadata[0].json(exclude_none=True, exclude_defaults=True)
All book titles of an author (Eça de Queirós)
We are ignoring documents where Queirós is an editor.
As a regular for
loop
q = litcorpt.Query()
result = corpus_db.search(q.creator.any(q.name == 'Eça de Queirós'))
titles = []
for document in result:
titles.append(document['title'])
pp(titles)
As a list comprehension shorter but harder to read.
q = litcorpt.Query()
titles = [ document['title'] for document in corpus_db.search(q.creator.any(q.name == 'Eça de Queirós'))]
pp(titles)
Building a corpus with Eça de Queirós
q = litcorpt.Query()
search = (q.creator.any(q.name == 'Eça de Queirós'))
queiros_corpus = litcorpt.corpus(corpus_db, search)
pp(queiros_corpus)
Building a bibliography
Here we handle the case where there is no author.
bibliography = []
for document in iter(corpus_db):
creators = []
for creator in document.get('creator', [{'name': 'Anonymous'}]):
creators.append(creator['name'])
bibliography.append(f'{" and ".join(creators)}. {document["title"][0].strip()}.')
pp(bibliography)
Count documents by Author
Here we use Python's Counter to count the surnames and using a dict
comprehension to filter the authors that occurs more than 5 times. You still can
access the whole counting the name
variable
As a list comprehension
q = litcorpt.Query()
from collections import Counter
names = Counter([ creator['name'] for document in corpus_db.search(q.creator.exists()) for creator in document['creator'] ])
most_common_names = {name: count for name, count in names.items() if count >= 5}
print(most_common_names)
Unrolling the comprehension
q = litcorpt.Query()
from collections import Counter
names = []
for document in corpus_db.search(q.creator.exists()):
for creator in document['creator']:
names.append(creator['name'])
names = Counter(names)
most_common_names = {}
for name, count in names.items():
if count >= 5:
most_common_names[name] = count
Extra: Sorting by decreasing frequency, then alphabeticaly.
sorted(most_common_names.items(), key=lambda item: (-item[1], item[0]))
Display all Subjects
First we group all subjects
q = litcorpt.Query()
subjects = [subject
for document in iter(corpus_db)
if document['subject'] is not None
for subject in document['subject']]
Then we can count, and sort by descending frequency (Python 3.6> dicts are ordered by default).
from collections import Counter
subject_frequency = Counter(subjects)
subject_frequency = dict(sorted(subject_frequency.items(), key=lambda item: -item[1]))
And also group the unique items for reference.
subject_list = list(subject_frequency.keys())
Building a corpus given a list of Subjects
First we pick a list of subjects (this is just an example with a few valid entries, and some not valid).
subjects = [ 'portuguese drama',
'france',
'drama',
'women',
'<INVALID SUBJECT>' ]
Then we proceed with search and corpus building
q = litcorpt.Query()
result = corpus_db.search(q.subject.any(subjects))
drama_corpus = [book['contents'] for book in result]
If we want we can easily list the titles in our new drama_corpus
titles = [ document['title'] for document in result ]
Of course we can do the same by any of the fields in document.
Retrieving a document by ID
q = litcorpt.Query()
search = q.creator.any(q.name == 'Joaquim Manuel de Macedo')
doc_ids = litcorpt.doc_id(corpus_db, search)
for doc_id in doc_ids:
print(corpus_db.get(doc_id=doc_id)['title'])
The structure of a document.
The corpus database is a list of documents. A document is often related with a literary document (book, text, play, etc) and contains the following fields:
Field | Explanation |
---|---|
index | An unique string to internaly identify the entry. |
title | A list of titles associated to the entry. Often is a list with a single element. |
creator | A list of creators. Each creator contains: |
role | Creator relationship with the book entry |
name | creator name |
birth | Creator's birth year. |
death | Creator's death year. |
place | Creator's birth place. |
language | A list of ISO entry with language, pt_BR or pt are the most common here. A document can contain many languages. Most of time just one. |
published | Date of first publish. Multiple edition should use the date of first edition. Except when large changes happened in document, as change of translator, change of ortography. |
identifier | A unique global identifier, often a ISBN13 for books. |
original_language | Original language of document. Using ISO entry for language. |
subject | A list entry subjects. As example: Fantasy, Science-Fiction, Kids. Use lower caps always. |
genre | A list of literary genre: Novel, Poetry, Lyrics, Theather. Use lower caps always. |
ortography | Reference to which Portuguese ortography is being used. |
abstract | The book abstract/resume. |
notes | Any notes worth of note. |
contents | Book contents. The text itself. |
Caution: Date fields must contain a datetime.date or a string in format "YYYY-MM-DD"
Customizing
By default, the corpus is stored at
${HOME}/litcorpt_data
If you wish to put in a different place, just set the CORPUS_DATAPATH
environment variable in your system configuration. For example for bash, add
this to your ~/.bashrc
export CORPUS_DATAPATH="/whatever/place/you/want"
or you can create a .env
file in your project root with
CORPUS_DATAPATH="/whatever/place/you/want"
This file will be loaded by litcorpt.
Then call your programs using litcorpt
or your ipython
session
TODO
-
Rewrite DOCSTRINGS using numpy style: https://numpydoc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/format.html#docstring-standard
-
From a Iterator of books (as the new package search functions) return: a. contensts only (
litcorpt._c
) b. Metadata only (litcorpt._m
) -
Add the new module search functions to README documentation
-
Check if tests still work with new book. model.
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Check if functions are returning generators instead lists.
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