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Thai Chunk Parser

This tutorial demonstrates how to use the chunk_parse function from the PyThaiNLP library for parsing Thai text into phrases. We will use a chunking model trained on ORCHID++ corpus.

Read more: https://github.com/PyThaiNLP/pythainlp/pull/524

We will need the following libraries and packages: - PyThaiNLP - NLTK (to preprocess chunk data for visualization) - svgling (for visualization) - python-crfsuite

!pip install pythainlp svgling nltk python-crfsuite

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We need to import the following modules and functions: - word_tokenize – this function takes a Thai text and returns a list of tokenized words - pos_tag – this function takes a list of tokenized words and marks them with part-of-speech (POS) tags - chunk_parse – this function takes words with their POS tags and marks them with inside-outside-beginning (IOB) tags - conlltags2tree – this function is part of the NLTK and converts IOB format to a tree - svgling – this package will be used to visualize the tree in SVG

from pythainlp.tokenize import word_tokenize
from pythainlp.tag import pos_tag
from pythainlp.tag import chunk_parse
from nltk.chunk import conlltags2tree
import svgling

We define a new function test, which will first segment the input text into words (word_tokenize), tag the words with their parts of speech based on the ORCHID++ corpus (pos_tag) and perform chunking (chunk_parse). The function then combines the words, POS and IOB tags into a list of triples p.

def test(txt):
    m = [(w,t) for w,t in pos_tag(word_tokenize(txt), engine= 'perceptron',corpus = 'orchid')]
    tag = chunk_parse(m)
    p = [(w,t,tag[i]) for i,(w,t) in enumerate(m)]
    return p

Finally, we call the test function to chunk several example sentences. We then use the svgling.draw_tree function to visualize the syntactic trees, which were generated from the chunked data by the conlltags2tree function.

svgling.draw_tree(conlltags2tree(test("แมวกินปลา")))

svgling.draw_tree(conlltags2tree(test("คนหนองคายเป็นคนน่ารัก")))

svgling.draw_tree(conlltags2tree(test("ปลาอะไรอยู่ในน้ำ")))

svgling.draw_tree(conlltags2tree(test("ในน้ำมีอะไรอยู่")))

svgling.draw_tree(conlltags2tree(test("ทำไมเขารักคุณ")))

svgling.draw_tree(conlltags2tree(test("คนอะไรอยู่หลังต้นไม้")))