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scikit-learn: Creating a matrix of named entity counts

I’ve been trying to improve my score on Kaggle’s Spooky Author Identification competition, and my latest idea was building a model which used named entities extracted using the polyglot NLP library.

We’ll start by learning how to extract entities form a sentence using polyglot which isn’t too tricky:

>>> from polyglot.text import Text
>>> doc = "My name is David Beckham. Hello from London, England"
>>> Text(doc, hint_language_code="en").entities
[I-PER(['David', 'Beckham']), I-LOC(['London']), I-LOC(['England'])]

This sentence contains three entities. We’d like each entity to be a string rather than an array of values so let’s refactor the code to do that:

>>> ["_".join(entity) for entity in Text(doc, hint_language_code="en").entities]
['David_Beckham', 'London', 'England']

That’s it for the polyglot part of the solution. Now let’s work out how to integrate that with scikit-learn.

I’ve been using scikit-learn’s http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.pipeline.Pipeline.html abstraction for the other models I’ve created so I’d like to take the same approach here. This is an example of a model that creates a matrix of unigram counts and creates a Naive Bayes model on top of that:

from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import CountVectorizer
from sklearn.naive_bayes import MultinomialNB
from sklearn.pipeline import Pipeline

nlp_pipeline = Pipeline([
    ('cv', CountVectorizer(),
    ('mnb', MultinomialNB())
])

...
# Train and Test the model
...

I was going to write a class similar to http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.feature_extraction.text.CountVectorizer.html but after reading its code for a couple of hours I realised that I could just pass in a custom analyzer instead. This is what I ended up with:

entities = {}


def analyze(doc):
    if doc not in entities:
        entities[doc] = ["_".join(entity) for entity in Text(doc, hint_language_code="en").entities]
    return entities[doc]

nlp_pipeline = Pipeline([
    ('cv', CountVectorizer(analyzer=lambda doc: analyze(doc))),
    ('mnb', MultinomialNB())
])

I’m caching the results in a dictionary because the entity extraction is quite time consuming and there’s no point recalculating it each time the function is called.

Unfortunately this model didn’t help me improve my best score. It scores a log loss of around 0.5, a bit worse than the 0.45 I’ve achieved using the unigram model :(

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