pytorch-nlp 0.3.3

Text utilities and datasets for PyTorch

Supporting Rapid Prototyping with a Deep Learning NLP Toolkit  

PyTorch-NLP, or torchnlp for short, is a library of neural network layers, text processing modules and datasets designed to accelerate Natural Language Processing (NLP) research.

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Installation

Make sure you have Python 3.5+ and PyTorch 0.2.0 or newer. You can then install pytorch-nlp using pip:

pip install pytorch-nlp

Docs 📖

The complete documentation for PyTorch-NLP is available via our ReadTheDocs website.

Basics

Add PyTorch-NLP to your project by following one of the common use cases:

Load a Dataset

Load the IMDB dataset, for example:

from torchnlp.datasets import imdb_dataset

# Load the imdb training dataset
train = imdb_dataset(train=True)
train[0]  # RETURNS: {'text': 'For a movie that gets..', 'sentiment': 'pos'}

Apply Neural Networks Layers

For example, from the neural network package, apply a Simple Recurrent Unit (SRU):

from torchnlp.nn import SRU
import torch

input_ = torch.autograd.Variable(torch.randn(6, 3, 10))
sru = SRU(10, 20)

# Apply a Simple Recurrent Unit to `input_`
sru(input_)
# RETURNS: (
#   output [torch.FloatTensor (6x3x20)],
#   hidden_state [torch.FloatTensor (2x3x20)]
# )

Encode Text

Tokenize and encode text as a tensor. For example, a WhitespaceEncoder breaks text into terms whenever it encounters a whitespace character.

from torchnlp.text_encoders import WhitespaceEncoder

# Create a `WhitespaceEncoder` with a corpus of text
encoder = WhitespaceEncoder(["now this ain't funny", "so don't you dare laugh"])

# Encode and decode phrases
encoder.encode("this ain't funny.") # RETURNS: torch.LongTensor([6, 7, 1])
encoder.decode(encoder.encode("This ain't funny.")) # RETURNS: "this ain't funny."

Load Word Vectors

For example, load FastText, state-of-the-art English word vectors:

from torchnlp.word_to_vector import FastText

vectors = FastText()
# Load vectors for any word as a `torch.FloatTensor`
vectors['hello']  # RETURNS: [torch.FloatTensor of size 100]

Compute Metrics

Finally, compute common metrics such as the BLEU score.

from torchnlp.metrics import get_moses_multi_bleu

hypotheses = ["The brown fox jumps over the dog 笑"]
references = ["The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog 笑"]

# Compute BLEU score with the official BLEU perl script
get_moses_multi_bleu(hypotheses, references, lowercase=True)  # RETURNS: 47.9

Help :question:

Maybe looking at longer examples may help you at examples/.

Need more help? We are happy to answer your questions via Gitter Chat.

Contributing

We've released PyTorch-NLP because we found a lack of basic toolkits for NLP in PyTorch. We hope that other organizations can benefit from the project. We are thankful for any contributions from the community.

Contributing Guide

Read our contributing guide to learn about our development process, how to propose bugfixes and improvements, and how to build and test your changes to PyTorch-NLP.

Related Work

torchtext

torchtext and PyTorch-NLP differ in the architecture and feature set; otherwise, they are similar. torchtext and PyTorch-NLP provide pre-trained word vectors, datasets, iterators and text encoders. PyTorch-NLP also provides neural network modules and metrics. From an architecture standpoint, torchtext is object orientated with external coupling while PyTorch-NLP is object orientated with low coupling.

AllenNLP

AllenNLP is designed to be a platform for research. PyTorch-NLP is designed to be a lightweight toolkit.

Authors

• Michael Petrochuk — Developer
• Chloe Yeo — Logo Design

Citing

If you find PyTorch-NLP useful for an academic publication, then please use the following BibTeX to cite it:

@misc{pytorch-nlp,
  author = {Petrochuk, Michael},
  title = {PyTorch-NLP: Rapid Prototyping with PyTorch Natural Language Processing (NLP) Tools},
  year = {2018},
  publisher = {GitHub},
  journal = {GitHub repository},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/PetrochukM/PyTorch-NLP}},
}