discodop.punctuation

Punctuation related functions.

Functions

applypunct(method, tree, sent)	Apply punctuation strategy to tree (in-place).
balancedpunctraise(tree, sent)	Move balanced punctuation " ' - ( ) [ ] to a common constituent.
ispunct(word, tag)	Test whether a word and/or tag is punctuation.
punctlower(tree, sent)	Find suitable constituent for punctuation marks and add it there.
punctprune(tree, sent)	Remove quotes and period at sentence beginning and end.
punctraise(tree, sent[, rootpreterms])	Attach punctuation nodes to an appropriate constituent.
punctremove(tree, sent[, rootpreterms])	Remove any punctuation nodes, and any empty ancestors.
punctroot(tree, sent)	Move punctuation directly under ROOT, as in the Negra annotation.

discodop.punctuation.applypunct(method, tree, sent)

Apply punctuation strategy to tree (in-place).

Parameters:method – one of remove, removeall, move, moveall, prune, or root.

discodop.punctuation.punctremove(tree, sent, rootpreterms=False)

Remove any punctuation nodes, and any empty ancestors.

discodop.punctuation.punctprune(tree, sent)

Remove quotes and period at sentence beginning and end.

discodop.punctuation.punctroot(tree, sent)

Move punctuation directly under ROOT, as in the Negra annotation.

discodop.punctuation.punctlower(tree, sent)

Find suitable constituent for punctuation marks and add it there.

Initial candidate is the root node. Note that punctraise() performs better. Based on rparse code.

discodop.punctuation.punctraise(tree, sent, rootpreterms=False)

Attach punctuation nodes to an appropriate constituent.

Trees in the Negra corpus have punctuation attached to the root; i.e., it is not part of the phrase-structure. This function moves the punctuation to an appropriate level in the tree. A punctuation node is a POS tag with a punctuation terminal. Modifies trees in-place.

Parameters:rootpreterms – if True, move all preterminals under root, instead of only recognized punctuation.

discodop.punctuation.balancedpunctraise(tree, sent)

Move balanced punctuation " ' - ( ) [ ] to a common constituent.

Based on rparse code.

discodop.punctuation.ispunct(word, tag)

Test whether a word and/or tag is punctuation.