Steven Bethard wrote:
> I have some plain text data and some SGML markup for that text that I
> need to align. (The SGML doesn't maintain the original whitespace, so I
> have to do some alignment; I can't just calculate the indices directly.)
> For example, some of my text looks like:
>
> TNF binding induces release of AIP1 (DAB2IP) from TNFR1, resulting in
> cytoplasmic translocation and concomitant formation of an intracellular
> signaling complex comprised of TRADD, RIP1, TRAF2, and AIPl.
>
> And the corresponding SGML looks like:
>
> <PROTEIN> TNF </PROTEIN> binding induces release of <PROTEIN> AIP1
> </PROTEIN> ( <PROTEIN> DAB2IP </PROTEIN> ) from <PROTEIN> TNFR1
> </PROTEIN> , resulting in cytoplasmic translocation and concomitant
> formation of an <PROTEIN> intracellular signaling complex </PROTEIN>
> comprised of <PROTEIN> TRADD </PROTEIN> , <PROTEIN> RIP1 </PROTEIN> ,
> <PROTEIN> TRAF2 </PROTEIN> , and AIPl .
>
> Note that the SGML inserts spaces not only within the SGML elements, but
> also around punctuation.
>
>
> I need to determine the indices in the original text that each SGML
> element corresponds to. Here's some working code to do this, based on a
> suggestion for a related problem by Fredrik Lundh[1]::
>
> def align(text, sgml):
> sgml = sgml.replace('&', '&')
> tree = etree.fromstring('<xml>%s</xml>' % sgml)
> words = []
> if tree.text is not None:
> words.extend(tree.text.split())
> word_indices = []
> for elem in tree:
> elem_words = elem.text.split()
> start = len(words)
> end = start + len(elem_words)
> word_indices.append((start, end, elem.tag))
> words.extend(elem_words)
> if elem.tail is not None:
> words.extend(elem.tail.split())
> expr = '\s*'.join('(%s)' % re.escape(word) for word in words)
> match = re.match(expr, text)
> assert match is not None
> for word_start, word_end, label in word_indices:
> start = match.start(word_start + 1)
> end = match.end(word_end)
> yield label, start, end
>
[...]
> >>> list(align(text, sgml))
> [('PROTEIN', 0, 3), ('PROTEIN', 31, 35), ('PROTEIN', 37, 43),
> ('PROTEIN', 50, 55), ('PROTEIN', 128, 159), ('PROTEIN', 173, 178),
> ('PROTEIN', 180, 184), ('PROTEIN', 186, 191)]
>
> The problem is, this doesn't work when my text is long (which it is)
> because regular expressions are limited to 100 groups. I get an error
> like::
[...]
Steve
This is probably an abuse of itertools...
---8<---
text = '''TNF binding induces release of AIP1 (DAB2IP) from
TNFR1, resulting in cytoplasmic translocation and concomitant
formation of an intracellular signaling complex comprised of TRADD,
RIP1, TRAF2, and AIPl.'''
sgml = '''<PROTEIN> TNF </PROTEIN> binding induces release of
<PROTEIN> AIP1 </PROTEIN> ( <PROTEIN> DAB2IP </PROTEIN> ) from
<PROTEIN> TNFR1 </PROTEIN> , resulting in cytoplasmic translocation
and concomitant formation of an <PROTEIN> intracellular signaling
complex </PROTEIN> comprised of <PROTEIN> TRADD </PROTEIN> ,
<PROTEIN> RIP1 </PROTEIN> , <PROTEIN> TRAF2 </PROTEIN> , and AIPl .
'''
import itertools as it
import string
def scan(line):
if not line: return
line = line.strip()
parts = string.split(line, '>', maxsplit=1)
return parts[0]
def align(txt,sml):
i = 0
for k,g in it.groupby(sml.split('<'),scan):
g = list(g)
if not g[0]: continue
text = g[0].split('>')[1]#.replace('\n','')
if k.startswith('/'):
i += len(text)
else:
offset = len(text.strip())
yield k, i, i+offset
i += offset
print list(align(text,sgml))
------------
[('PROTEIN', 0, 3), ('PROTEIN', 31, 35), ('PROTEIN', 38, 44),
('PROTEIN', 52, 57), ('PROTEIN', 131, 162), ('PROTEIN', 176, 181),
('PROTEIN', 184, 188), ('PROTEIN', 191, 196)]
It's off because of the punctuation possibly, can't figure it out.
maybe you can tweak it?
hth
Gerard
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