Class Lexicon

pattern/text/__init__.py:218–240

    raise StopIteration

class Lexicon(lazydict):
    
    def __init__(self, path="", morphology=None, context=None, entities=None, NNP="NNP", language=None):
        """ A dictionary of words and their part-of-speech tags.
            For unknown words, rules for word morphology, context and named entities can be used.
        """
        self._path = path
        self._language  = language
        self.morphology = Morphology(self, path=morphology)
        self.context    = Context(self, path=context)
        self.entities   = Entities(self, path=entities, tag=NNP)
    
    def load(self):
        # Arnold NNP x
        dict.update(self, (x.split(" ")[:2] for x in _read(self._path)))
    
    @property
    def path(self):
        return self._path
        
    @property
    def language(self):
        return self._language

#--- MORPHOLOGICAL RULES ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Brill's algorithm generates lexical (i.e., morphological) rules in the following format: