# Natural Language Toolkit: Interface to scikit-learn classifiers # # Author: Lars Buitinck # URL: # For license information, see LICENSE.TXT """ scikit-learn (http://scikit-learn.org) is a machine learning library for Python. It supports many classification algorithms, including SVMs, Naive Bayes, logistic regression (MaxEnt) and decision trees. This package implements a wrapper around scikit-learn classifiers. To use this wrapper, construct a scikit-learn estimator object, then use that to construct a SklearnClassifier. E.g., to wrap a linear SVM with default settings: >>> from sklearn.svm import LinearSVC >>> from nltk.classify.scikitlearn import SklearnClassifier >>> classif = SklearnClassifier(LinearSVC()) A scikit-learn classifier may include preprocessing steps when it's wrapped in a Pipeline object. The following constructs and wraps a Naive Bayes text classifier with tf-idf weighting and chi-square feature selection to get the best 1000 features: >>> from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import TfidfTransformer >>> from sklearn.feature_selection import SelectKBest, chi2 >>> from sklearn.naive_bayes import MultinomialNB >>> from sklearn.pipeline import Pipeline >>> pipeline = Pipeline([('tfidf', TfidfTransformer()), ... ('chi2', SelectKBest(chi2, k=1000)), ... ('nb', MultinomialNB())]) >>> classif = SklearnClassifier(pipeline) """ from __future__ import print_function, unicode_literals from six.moves import zip from nltk.classify.api import ClassifierI from nltk.probability import DictionaryProbDist from nltk import compat try: from sklearn.feature_extraction import DictVectorizer from sklearn.preprocessing import LabelEncoder except ImportError: pass __all__ = ['SklearnClassifier'] @compat.python_2_unicode_compatible class SklearnClassifier(ClassifierI): """Wrapper for scikit-learn classifiers.""" def __init__(self, estimator, dtype=float, sparse=True): """ :param estimator: scikit-learn classifier object. :param dtype: data type used when building feature array. scikit-learn estimators work exclusively on numeric data. The default value should be fine for almost all situations. :param sparse: Whether to use sparse matrices internally. The estimator must support these; not all scikit-learn classifiers do (see their respective documentation and look for "sparse matrix"). The default value is True, since most NLP problems involve sparse feature sets. Setting this to False may take a great amount of memory. :type sparse: boolean. """ self._clf = estimator self._encoder = LabelEncoder() self._vectorizer = DictVectorizer(dtype=dtype, sparse=sparse) def __repr__(self): return "" % self._clf def classify_many(self, featuresets): """Classify a batch of samples. :param featuresets: An iterable over featuresets, each a dict mapping strings to either numbers, booleans or strings. :return: The predicted class label for each input sample. :rtype: list """ X = self._vectorizer.transform(featuresets) classes = self._encoder.classes_ return [classes[i] for i in self._clf.predict(X)] def prob_classify_many(self, featuresets): """Compute per-class probabilities for a batch of samples. :param featuresets: An iterable over featuresets, each a dict mapping strings to either numbers, booleans or strings. :rtype: list of ``ProbDistI`` """ X = self._vectorizer.transform(featuresets) y_proba_list = self._clf.predict_proba(X) return [self._make_probdist(y_proba) for y_proba in y_proba_list] def labels(self): """The class labels used by this classifier. :rtype: list """ return list(self._encoder.classes_) def train(self, labeled_featuresets): """ Train (fit) the scikit-learn estimator. :param labeled_featuresets: A list of ``(featureset, label)`` where each ``featureset`` is a dict mapping strings to either numbers, booleans or strings. """ X, y = list(zip(*labeled_featuresets)) X = self._vectorizer.fit_transform(X) y = self._encoder.fit_transform(y) self._clf.fit(X, y) return self def _make_probdist(self, y_proba): classes = self._encoder.classes_ return DictionaryProbDist(dict((classes[i], p) for i, p in enumerate(y_proba))) # skip doctests if scikit-learn is not installed def setup_module(module): from nose import SkipTest try: import sklearn except ImportError: raise SkipTest("scikit-learn is not installed") if __name__ == "__main__": from nltk.classify.util import names_demo, names_demo_features from sklearn.linear_model import LogisticRegression from sklearn.naive_bayes import BernoulliNB # Bernoulli Naive Bayes is designed for binary classification. We set the # binarize option to False since we know we're passing boolean features. print("scikit-learn Naive Bayes:") names_demo(SklearnClassifier(BernoulliNB(binarize=False)).train, features=names_demo_features) # The C parameter on logistic regression (MaxEnt) controls regularization. # The higher it's set, the less regularized the classifier is. print("\n\nscikit-learn logistic regression:") names_demo(SklearnClassifier(LogisticRegression(C=1000)).train, features=names_demo_features)