Designing your own experiment with a Jupyter Notebook
A Jupyter notebook (hereafter just notebook, for short) is a type of document that contains executable code interspersed with visualizations of code execution results and narrative text.
Below we provide an example notebook which you may use as a starting point for designing your own experiments using language resources offered by PORTULAN CLARIN.
Pre-requisites
To execute this notebook, you need an access key you can obtain by clicking the button below. A key is valid for 31 days. It allows to submit a total of 1 billion characters by means of requests with no more 500000 characters each. It allows to enter 100,000 requests, at a rate of no more than 200 requests per hour.
For other usage regimes, you should contact the helpdesk.
The input data sent to any PORTULAN CLARIN web service and the respective output will be automatically deleted from our computers after being processed. However, when running a notebook on an external service, such as the ones suggested below, you should take their data privacy policies into consideration.
Running the notebook
You have three options to run the notebook presented below:
- Run on Binder — The Binder Project is funded by a 501c3 non-profit
organization and is described in detail in the following paper:
Jupyter et al., "Binder 2.0 - Reproducible, Interactive, Sharable Environments for Science at Scale."
Proceedings of the 17th Python in Science Conference. 2018. doi://10.25080/Majora-4af1f417-011 - Run on Google Colab — Google Colaboratory is a free-to-use product from Google Research.
- Download the notebook from our public Github repository and run it on your computer.
This is a more advanced option, which requires you to install Python 3 and Jupyter on your computer. For anyone without prior experience setting up a Python development environment, we strongly recommend one of the two options above.
Using LX-Sentence Splitter for delimiting sentences in a text from the BDCamões corpus¶
This is an example notebook that illustrates how you can use the LX-Sentence Splitter web service for delimiting sentences in a sample text from the BDCamões corpus (the full corpus is available from the PORTULAN CLARIN repository).
Before you run this example, replace access_key_goes_here by your webservice access key, below:
LXSENTENCESPLITTER_WS_API_KEY = 'access_key_goes_here'
LXSENTENCESPLITTER_WS_API_URL = 'https://portulanclarin.net/workbench/lx-sentencesplitter/api/'
Importing required Python modules¶
The next cell will take care of installing the requests package,
if not already installed, and make IT available to use in this notebook.
try:
import requests
except:
!pip3 install requests
import requests
try:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
except:
!pip3 install matplotlib
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
Wrapping the complexities of the JSON-RPC API in a simple, easy to use function¶
The WSException class defined below, will be used later to identify errors
from the webservice.
class WSException(Exception):
'Webservice Exception'
def __init__(self, errordata):
"errordata is a dict returned by the webservice with details about the error"
super().__init__(self)
assert isinstance(errordata, dict)
self.message = errordata["message"]
# see https://json-rpc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/exceptions.html for more info
# about JSON-RPC error codes
if -32099 <= errordata["code"] <= -32000: # Server Error
if errordata["data"]["type"] == "WebServiceException":
self.message += f": {errordata['data']['message']}"
else:
self.message += f": {errordata['data']!r}"
def __str__(self):
return self.message
The next function invokes the LX-Sentence Splitter webservice through its public JSON-RPC API.
def split(text, format):
'''
Arguments
text: a string with a maximum of 4000 characters, Portuguese text, with
the input to be processed
format: either 'CINTIL' or 'JSON'
Returns a string with the output according to specification in
https://portulanclarin.net/workbench/lx-sentencesplitter/
Raises a WSException if an error occurs.
'''
request_data = {
'method': 'split',
'jsonrpc': '2.0',
'id': 0,
'params': {
'text': text,
'format': format,
'key': LXSENTENCESPLITTER_WS_API_KEY,
},
}
request = requests.post(LXSENTENCESPLITTER_WS_API_URL, json=request_data)
response_data = request.json()
if "error" in response_data:
raise WSException(response_data["error"])
else:
return response_data["result"]
The JSON output format¶
The JSON format (which we obtain by passing format="JSON" into the split function) is the most
convenient when we need to further process the annotations, because each abstraction is mapped
directly into a Python native object (lists, dicts, strings, etc) as follows:
- The returned object is a
list, where each element corresponds to a paragraph of the given text; - In turn, each paragraph is a
listwhere each element represents a sentence; - Each sentence is a
listwhere each element represents a token; - Each token is a
dictwhere each key-value pair is an attribute of the token.
text = '''Esta frase serve para testar o funcionamento do delimitador de frases. Esta outra
frase faz o mesmo.'''
paragraphs = split(text, format="JSON")
for pnum, paragraph in enumerate(paragraphs, start=1): # enumerate paragraphs in text, starting at 1
print(f"paragraph {pnum}:")
for snum, sentence in enumerate(paragraph, start=1): # enumerate sentences in paragraph, starting at 1
print(f" sentence {snum}: {sentence}")
Downloading and preparing our working text¶
In the next code cell, we will download a copy of the book "Viagens na minha terra" and prepare it to be used as our working text.
# A plain text version of this book is available from our Gitbub repository:
sample_text_url = "https://github.com/portulanclarin/jupyter-notebooks/raw/main/sample-data/viagensnaminhaterra.txt"
req = requests.get(sample_text_url)
sample_text_lines = req.text.splitlines()
num_lines = len(sample_text_lines)
print(f"The downloaded text contains {num_lines} lines")
# discard whitespace at beginning and end of each line:
sample_text_lines = [line.strip() for line in sample_text_lines]
# discard empty lines
sample_text_lines = [line for line in sample_text_lines if line]
# how many lines do we have left?
num_lines = len(sample_text_lines)
print(f"After discarding empty lines we are left with {num_lines} non-empty lines")
Delimiting sentences with the LX-Sentence Splitter web service¶
There is a limit on the number of web service requests per hour that can be made in association with any given key. Thus, we should send as much text as possible in each request while also conforming with the 200000 characters per request limit.
To this end, the following function slices our text into chunks smaller than 200K:
def slice_into_chunks(lines, max_chunk_size=200000):
chunk, chunk_size = [], 0
for lnum, line in enumerate(lines, start=1):
if (chunk_size + len(line)) <= max_chunk_size:
chunk.append(line)
chunk_size += len(line) + 1
# the + 1 above is for the newline character terminating each line
else:
yield "\n".join(chunk)
if len(line) > max_chunk_size:
print(f"line {lnum} is longer than 4000 characters; truncating")
line = line[:4000]
chunk, chunk_size = [line], len(line) + 1
if chunk:
yield "\n".join(chunk)
Next, we will apply slice_into_chunks to the sample text to get the chunks to be annotated.
chunks = list(slice_into_chunks(sample_text_lines))
paragraphs = [] # paragraphs will be stored here
chunks_processed = 0 # this variable keeps track of which chunks have been processed already
print(f"There are {len(chunks)} chunks to be analysed")
Next, we will invoke split on each chunk.
If we get an exception while analysing a chunk:
- check the exception message to determine what was the cause;
- if the maximum number of requests per hour has been exceeded, then wait some time before retrying;
- if a temporary error occurred in the webservice, try again later.
In any case, as long as the notebook is not shutdown or restarted, the text that has been analysed thus far is not lost, and re-running the following cell will pick up from the point where the exception occurred.
for cnum, chunk in enumerate(chunks[chunks_processed:], start=chunks_processed+1):
try:
paragraphs.extend(split(chunk, format="JSON"))
chunks_processed = cnum
# print one dot for each analysed chunk to get some progress feedback
print(".", end="", flush=True)
except Exception as exc:
chunk_preview = chunk[:100] + "[...]" if len(chunk) > 100 else chunk
print(
f"\nError: delimiting sentences in chunk {cnum} failed ({exc}); chunk contents:\n\n{chunk_preview}\n\n"
)
break
Let's create a sentence length histogram¶
%matplotlib inline
plt.rcParams.update({'figure.figsize':(20,5)})
x = [len(sentence) for paragraph in paragraphs for sentence in paragraph]
plt.hist(x, bins=100)
plt.gca().set(title='Sentence length (in characters) Histogram', ylabel='Frequency');
# To learn more about matplotlib visit https://matplotlib.org/
Getting the status of a webservice access key¶
def get_key_status():
'''Returns a string with the detailed status of the webservice access key'''
request_data = {
'method': 'key_status',
'jsonrpc': '2.0',
'id': 0,
'params': {
'key': LXSENTENCESPLITTER_WS_API_KEY,
},
}
request = requests.post(LXSENTENCESPLITTER_WS_API_URL, json=request_data)
response_data = request.json()
if "error" in response_data:
raise WSException(response_data["error"])
else:
return response_data["result"]
get_key_status()