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8 changes: 8 additions & 0 deletions webstruct/text_tokenizers.py
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Expand Up @@ -110,6 +110,14 @@ class DefaultTokenizer(WordTokenizer):
def tokenize(self, text):
tokens = super(DefaultTokenizer, self).tokenize(text)
# remove standalone commas and semicolons
# as they broke tag sets, e.g. PERSON->FUNCTION in case "PERSON, FUNCTION"

# but it has negative consequences, e.g.
# etalon: [PER-B, PER-I, FUNC-B]
# predicted: [PER-B, PER-I, PER-I ]
# because we removed punctuation

# FIXME: remove as token, but save as feature left/right_punct:","
return [t for t in tokens if t not in {',', ';'}]


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