Wapiti-Ruby

The Wapiti-Ruby gem provides a wicked fast linear-chain CRF (Conditional Random Fields) API for sequence segmentation and labelling; it is based on the codebase of wapiti.

Requirements

Wapiti is written in C and Ruby and requires a compiler with C99 support; it has been confirmed to work on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Quickstart

Installation

$ [sudo] gem install wapiti

Creating a Model

You can run the following examples starting the ruby interpreter (irb or pry) inside spec/fixtures directory.

Using a pattern and training data stored in a file:

require 'wapiti'
model = Wapiti.train('chtrain.txt', pattern: 'chpattern.txt')
#=> #<Wapiti::Model:0x0000010188f868>
model.labels
#=> ["B-ADJP", "B-ADVP", "B-CONJP" ...]
model.save('ch.mod')
#=> saves the model as 'ch.mod'

Alternatively, you can pass in the training data as a Wapiti::Dataset; this class supports the default text format used by Wapiti as well as additional formats (such as YAML or XML) and an API, to make it easier to manage data sets used for input and training.

options = {threads:3, pattern: 'chpattern.txt'}

data_text = Wapiti::Dataset.open('chtrain.txt',tagged:true)
model2= Wapiti.train(data_text,options)
model2.labels
=> ["B-ADJP", "B-ADVP", "B-CONJP" ...]

options = {threads:3, pattern: 'chpattern_only_tag.txt'}

data_xml    = Wapiti::Dataset.open('chtrain.xml')
#=> #<Wapiti::Dataset sequences={823}>
model3   = Wapiti.train(data_xml, options)

You can consult the Wapiti::Options.attribute_names class for a list of supported configuration options and Wapiti::Options.algorithms for all supported algorithms:

Use #valid? or #validate (which returns error messages) to make sure your configuration is supported by Wapiti.

Before saving your model you can use compact to reduce the model's size:

model.save 'm1.mod'
#=> m1.mod file size 1.8M
model.compact
model.save 'm2.mod'
#=> m2.mod file size 471K

Loading existing Models

model = Wapiti.load('m1.mod')

Labelling

By calling #label on a Model instance you can add labels to a dataset:

model = Wapiti.load('ch.mod')
input = Wapiti::Dataset.open('chtrain.txt',tagged:true)
output = model.label(input)

The result is a new Wapiti::Dataset with the predicted labels for each token. If your input data was already tagged, you can compare the input and output datasets to evaluate your results:

output - input
# => new dataset of output sequences which are tagged differently than expected

If you pass a block to #label Wapiti will yield each token and the corresponding label:

model.label input do |token, label|
  [token.downcase, label.downcase]
end

Note that if you set the :score option (either in the Model's #options or when calling #label), the score for each label will be appended to each token/label tuple as a floating point number or passed as a third argument to the passed-in block.

output_with_score = model.label input, score: true
# => Dataset where each token will include a score
output_with_score.first.map(&:score)
# => [5.950832716249245, 8.870883529621942, ...]

Statistics

By setting the :check option you can tell Wapiti to keep statistics during the labelling phase (for the statistics to be meaningful you obviously need to provide input data that is already labelled). Wapiti does not reset the counters during consecutive calls to #label to allow you to collect accumulative stats; however, you can reset the counters at any time, by calling #reset_counters.

After calling #label with the :check options set and appropriately labelled input, you can access the statistics via #statistics (the individual values are also available through the associated attribute readers).

model.label input, check: true
model.stats
=> {:token=>{:count=>19172, :errors=>36, :rate=>0.18777383684539956},
    :sequence=>{:count=>823, :errors=>28, :rate=>3.402187120291616}}

For convenience, you can also use the #check method, which will reset the counters, check your input, and return the stats.

Contributing

The Wapiti-Ruby source code is hosted on GitHub. You can check out a copy of the latest code using Git:

$ git clone https://github.com/inukshuk/wapiti-ruby.git

If you've found a bug or have a question, please open an issue on the Wapiti-Ruby issue tracker. Or, for extra credit, clone the Wapiti-Ruby repository, write a failing example, fix the bug and submit a pull request.

License

Wapiti-Ruby is distributed under a BSD-style license. See LICENSE for details.