#!/usr/bin/python # The contents of this file are in the public domain. See LICENSE_FOR_EXAMPLE_PROGRAMS.txt # # # This example program shows how to use the dlib sequence segmentation tools from within a # python program. In particular, we will create a simple training dataset, learn a # sequence segmentation model, and then test it on some sequences. # # COMPILING THE DLIB PYTHON INTERFACE # You need to compile the dlib python interface before you can use this file. To do # this, run compile_dlib_python_module.bat. This should work on any operating system so # long as you have CMake and boost-python installed. On Ubuntu, this can be done easily # by running the command: sudo apt-get install libboost-python-dev cmake import dlib # In a sequence segmentation task we are given a sequence of objects (e.g. words in a # sentence) and we are supposed to detect certain subsequences (e.g. named entities). In # the code below we create some very simple sequence/segmentation training pairs. In # particular, each element of a sequence is represented by a vector which describes # important properties of the element. The idea is to use vectors that contain information # useful for detecting whatever kind of subsequences you are interested in detecting. # To keep this example simple we will use very simple vectors. Specifically, each vector # is 2D and is either the vector [0 1] or [1 0]. Moreover, we will say that the # subsequences we want to detect are any runs of the [0 1] vector. Note that the code # works with both dense and sparse vectors. The following if statement constructs either # kind depending on the value in use_sparse_vects. use_sparse_vects = False if use_sparse_vects: training_sequences = dlib.sparse_vectorss() inside = dlib.sparse_vector() outside = dlib.sparse_vector() # Add index/value pairs to each sparse vector. Any index not mentioned in a sparse # vector is implicitly associated with a value of zero. inside.append(dlib.pair(0,1)) outside.append(dlib.pair(1,1)) else: training_sequences = dlib.vectorss() inside = dlib.vector([0, 1]) outside = dlib.vector([1, 0]) # Here we make our training sequences and their annotated subsegments. We create two # training sequences. segments = dlib.rangess() training_sequences.resize(2) segments.resize(2) # training_sequences[0] starts out empty and we append vectors onto it. Note that we wish # to detect the subsequence of "inside" vectors within the sequence. So the output should # be the range (2,5). Note that this is a "half open" range meaning that it starts with # the element with index 2 and ends just before the element with index 5. training_sequences[0].append(outside) # index 0 training_sequences[0].append(outside) # index 1 training_sequences[0].append(inside) # index 2 training_sequences[0].append(inside) # index 3 training_sequences[0].append(inside) # index 4 training_sequences[0].append(outside) # index 5 training_sequences[0].append(outside) # index 6 training_sequences[0].append(outside) # index 7 segments[0].append(dlib.range(2,5)) # Add another training sequence. This one is a little longer and has two "inside" segments # which should be detected. training_sequences[1].append(outside) # index 0 training_sequences[1].append(outside) # index 1 training_sequences[1].append(inside) # index 2 training_sequences[1].append(inside) # index 3 training_sequences[1].append(inside) # index 4 training_sequences[1].append(inside) # index 5 training_sequences[1].append(outside) # index 6 training_sequences[1].append(outside) # index 7 training_sequences[1].append(outside) # index 8 training_sequences[1].append(inside) # index 9 training_sequences[1].append(inside) # index 10 segments[1].append(dlib.range(2,6)) segments[1].append(dlib.range(9,11)) # Now that we have a simple training set we can train a sequence segmenter. However, the # sequence segmentation trainer has some optional parameters we can set. These parameters # determine properties of the segmentation model we will learn. See the dlib documentation # for the sequence_segmenter object for a full discussion of their meanings. params = dlib.segmenter_params() params.window_size = 1 params.use_high_order_features = False params.use_BIO_model = True params.C = 1 # Train a model model = dlib.train_sequence_segmenter(training_sequences, segments, params) # A segmenter model takes a sequence of vectors and returns an array of detected ranges. # So for example, we can give it the first training sequence and it will predict the # locations of the subsequences. This statement will correctly print 2,5. print model.segment_sequence(training_sequences[0])[0] # We can also measure the accuracy of a model relative to some labeled data. This # statement prints the precision, recall, and F1-score of the model relative to the data in # training_sequences/segments. print "Test on training data:", dlib.test_sequence_segmenter(model, training_sequences, segments) # We can also do n-fold cross-validation and print the resulting precision, recall, and # F1-score. num_folds = 2 print "cross validation:", dlib.cross_validate_sequence_segmenter(training_sequences, segments, num_folds, params)