spiegel-keyman/developer/js/source/lexical-model-compiler/build-trie.ts
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import { readFileSync } from "fs";
/**
* A word list is an array of pairs: the concrete word form itself, followed by
* a non-negative count.
*/
type WordList = [string, number][];
/**
* Returns a data structure that can be loaded by the TrieModel.
*
* It implements a **weighted** trie, whose indices (paths down the trie) are
* generated by a search key, and not concrete wordforms themselves.
*
* @param sourceFiles an array of source files that will be read to generate the trie.
*/
export function createTrieDataStructure(filenames: string[], searchTermToKey?: (wf: string) => string): string {
if (typeof searchTermToKey !== "function") {
throw new TypeError("searchTermToKey must be explicitly specified")
}
// Make one big word list out of all of the filenames provided.
let wordlist = filenames
.map(parseWordListFromFilename)
.reduce((bigWordlist, current) => bigWordlist.concat(current), []);
let trie = Trie.buildTrie(wordlist, searchTermToKey as Trie.SearchTermToKey);
return JSON.stringify(trie);
}
/**
* Parses a word list from its filename.
*
* The word list may be encoded in:
*
* - UTF-8, with or without BOM [exported by most software]
* - UTF-16, little endian, with BOM [exported by Microsoft Excel]
*
* @param filename filename of the word list
*/
export function parseWordListFromFilename(filename: string): WordList {
let contents = readFileSync(filename, detectEncoding(filename));
return parseWordList(contents);
}
/**
* Reads a tab-separated values file into a word list.
*
* Format specification:
*
* - the file is a UTF-8 encoded text file.
* - new lines are either LF or CRLF.
* - the file MAY start with the UTF-8 byte-order mark (BOM); that is, if the
* first three bytes of the file are EF BB BF, these will be interepreted as
* the BOM and will be ignored.
* - the file either consists of a comment or an entry.
* - comment lines MUST start with the '#' character on the very first column.
* - entries are one to three columns, separated by the (horizontal) tab
* character.
* - column 1 (REQUIRED): the wordform: can have any character except tab, CR,
* LF. Surrounding whitespace characters are trimmed.
* - column 2 (optional): the count: a non-negative integer specifying how many
* times this entry has appeared in the corpus. Blank means 'indeterminate'.
* - column 3 (optional): comment: an informative comment, ignored by the tool.
*/
export function parseWordList(contents: string): WordList {
// Supports LF or CRLF line terminators.
const NEWLINE_SEPARATOR = /\u000d?\u000a/;
const TAB = "\t";
// TODO: format validation.
let lines = contents.split(NEWLINE_SEPARATOR);
let result: WordList = [];
for (let line of lines) {
// Remove the byte-order mark (BOM) from the beginning of the string.
// Because `contents` can be the concatenation of several files, we have to remove
// the BOM from every possible start of file -- i.e., beginning of every line.
line = line.replace(/^\uFEFF/, '');
if (line.startsWith('#') || line === "") {
continue; // skip comments and empty lines
}
// The third column is the comment. Always ignored!
let [wordform, countText] = line.split(TAB);
// Clean the word form.
// TODO: what happens if we get duplicate forms?
wordform = wordform.normalize('NFC').trim();
countText = (countText || '').trim();
let count = parseInt(countText, 10);
// When parsing a decimal integer fails (e.g., blank or something else):
if (!isFinite(count)) {
// TODO: is this the right thing to do?
// Treat it like a hapax legonmenom -- it exist, but only once.
count = 1;
}
result.push([wordform, count]);
}
return result;
}
namespace Trie {
/**
* An **opaque** type for a string that is exclusively used as a search key in
* the trie. There should be a function that converts arbitrary strings
* (queries) and converts them into a standard search key for a given language
* model.
*
* Fun fact: This opaque type has ALREADY saved my bacon and found a bug!
*/
type SearchKey = string & { _: 'SearchKey'};
/**
* A function that converts a string (word form or query) into a search key
* (secretly, this is also a string).
*/
export interface SearchTermToKey {
(wordform: string): SearchKey;
}
// The following trie implementation has been (heavily) derived from trie-ing
// by Conrad Irwin.
//
// trie-ing is distributed under the terms of the MIT license, reproduced here:
//
// The MIT License
// Copyright (c) 2015-2017 Conrad Irwin <conrad.irwin@gmail.com>
// Copyright (c) 2011 Marc Campbell <marc.e.campbell@gmail.com>
//
// Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
// of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
// in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
// to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
// copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
// furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
//
// The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
// all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
//
// THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
// IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
// FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
// AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
// LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
// OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
// THE SOFTWARE.
//
// See: https://github.com/ConradIrwin/trie-ing/blob/df55d7af7068d357829db9e0a7faa8a38add1d1d/LICENSE
/**
* An entry in the prefix trie. The matched word is "content".
*/
interface Entry {
content: string;
key: SearchKey;
weight: number;
}
/**
* The trie is made up of nodes. A node can be EITHER an internal node (whose
* only children are other nodes) OR a leaf, which actually contains the word
* form entries.
*/
type Node = InternalNode | Leaf;
/**
* An internal node.
*/
interface InternalNode {
type: 'internal';
weight: number;
// TODO: As an optimization, "values" can be a single string!
values: string[];
children: { [codeunit: string]: Node };
unsorted?: true;
}
/**
* A leaf node.
*/
interface Leaf {
type: 'leaf';
weight: number;
entries: Entry[];
unsorted?: true;
}
/**
* A sentinel value for when an internal node has contents and requires an
* "internal" leaf. That is, this internal node has content. Instead of placing
* entries as children in an internal node, a "fake" leaf is created, and its
* key is this special internal value.
*
* The value is a valid Unicode BMP code point, but it is a "non-character".
* Unicode will never assign semantics to these characters, as they are
* intended to be used internally as sentinel values.
*/
const INTERNAL_VALUE = '\uFDD0';
/**
* Builds a trie from a word list.
*
* @param wordlist The wordlist with non-negative weights.
* @param keyFunction Function that converts word forms into indexed search keys
* @returns A JSON-serialiable object that can be given to the TrieModel constructor.
*/
export function buildTrie(wordlist: WordList, keyFunction: SearchTermToKey): object {
let root = new Trie(keyFunction).buildFromWordList(wordlist).root;
return {
totalWeight: sumWeights(root),
root: root
}
}
/**
* Wrapper class for the trie and its nodes and wordform to search
*/
class Trie {
readonly root = createRootNode();
toKey: SearchTermToKey;
constructor(wordform2key: SearchTermToKey) {
this.toKey = wordform2key;
}
/**
* Populates the trie with the contents of an entire wordlist.
* @param words a list of word and count pairs.
*/
buildFromWordList(words: WordList): Trie {
for (let [wordform, weight] of words) {
let key = this.toKey(wordform);
addUnsorted(this.root, { key, weight, content: wordform }, 0);
}
sortTrie(this.root);
return this;
}
}
// "Constructors"
function createRootNode(): Node {
return {
type: 'leaf',
weight: 0,
entries: []
};
}
// Implement Trie creation.
/**
* Adds an entry to the trie.
*
* Note that the trie will likely be unsorted after the add occurs. Before
* performing a lookup on the trie, use call sortTrie() on the root note!
*
* @param node Which node should the entry be added to?
* @param entry the wordform/weight/key to add to the trie
* @param index the index in the key and also the trie depth. Should be set to
* zero when adding onto the root node of the trie.
*/
function addUnsorted(node: Node, entry: Entry, index: number = 0) {
// Each node stores the MAXIMUM weight out of all of its decesdents, to
// enable a greedy search through the trie.
node.weight = Math.max(node.weight, entry.weight);
// When should a leaf become an interior node?
// When it already has a value, but the key of the current value is longer
// than the prefix.
if (node.type === 'leaf' && index < entry.key.length && node.entries.length >= 1) {
convertLeafToInternalNode(node, index);
}
if (node.type === 'leaf') {
// The key matches this leaf node, so add yet another entry.
addItemToLeaf(node, entry);
} else {
// Push the node down to a lower node.
addItemToInternalNode(node, entry, index);
}
node.unsorted = true;
}
/**
* Adds an item to the internal node at a given depth.
* @param item
* @param index
*/
function addItemToInternalNode(node: InternalNode, item: Entry, index: number) {
let char = item.key[index];
if (!node.children[char]) {
node.children[char] = createRootNode();
node.values.push(char);
}
addUnsorted(node.children[char], item, index + 1);
}
function addItemToLeaf(leaf: Leaf, item: Entry) {
leaf.entries.push(item);
}
/**
* Mutates the given Leaf to turn it into an InternalNode.
*
* NOTE: the node passed in will be DESTRUCTIVELY CHANGED into a different
* type when passed into this function!
*
* @param depth depth of the trie at this level.
*/
function convertLeafToInternalNode(leaf: Leaf, depth: number): void {
let entries = leaf.entries;
// Alias the current node, as the desired type.
let internal = (<unknown> leaf) as InternalNode;
internal.type = 'internal';
delete leaf.entries;
internal.values = [];
internal.children = {};
// Convert the old values array into the format for interior nodes.
for (let item of entries) {
let char: string;
if (depth < item.key.length) {
char = item.key[depth];
} else {
char = INTERNAL_VALUE;
}
if (!internal.children[char]) {
internal.children[char] = createRootNode();
internal.values.push(char);
}
addUnsorted(internal.children[char], item, depth + 1);
}
internal.unsorted = true;
}
/**
* Recursively sort the trie, in descending order of weight.
* @param node any node in the trie
*/
function sortTrie(node: Node) {
if (node.type === 'leaf') {
if (!node.unsorted) {
return;
}
node.entries.sort(function (a, b) { return b.weight - a.weight; });
} else {
// We MUST recurse and sort children before returning.
for (let char of node.values) {
sortTrie(node.children[char]);
}
if (!node.unsorted) {
return;
}
node.values.sort((a, b) => {
return node.children[b].weight - node.children[a].weight;
});
}
delete node.unsorted;
}
/**
* O(n) recursive traversal to sum the total weight of all leaves in the
* trie, starting at the provided node.
*
* @param node The node to start summing weights.
*/
function sumWeights(node: Node): number {
if (node.type === 'leaf') {
return node.entries
.map(entry => entry.weight)
.reduce((acc, count) => acc + count, 0);
} else {
return Object.keys(node.children)
.map((key) => sumWeights(node.children[key]))
.reduce((acc, count) => acc + count, 0);
}
}
}
/**
* Converts wordforms into an indexable form. It does this by
* normalizing the letter case of characters INDIVIDUALLY (to disregard
* context-sensitive case transformations), normalizing to NFKD form,
* and removing common diacritical marks.
*
* This is a very speculative implementation, that might work with
* your language. We don't guarantee that this will be perfect for your
* language, but it's a start.
*
* This uses String.prototype.normalize() to convert normalize into NFKD.
* NFKD neutralizes some funky distinctions, e.g., , , e should all be the
* same character; plus, it's an easy way to separate a Latin character from
* its diacritics; Even then, orthographies regularly use code points
* that, under NFKD normalization, do NOT decompose appropriately for your
* language (e.g., SENĆOŦEN, Plains Cree in syllabics).
*
* Use this in early iterations of the model. For a production lexical model,
* you will probably write/generate your own key function, tailored to your
* language. There is a chance the default will work properly out of the box.
*/
export function defaultSearchTermToKey(wordform: string): string {
return Array.from(wordform)
.map(c => c.toLowerCase())
.join('')
.normalize('NFKD')
// Remove any combining diacritics (if input is in NFKD)
.replace(/[\u0300-\u036F]/g, '');
}
/**
* Detects the encoding of a text file.
*
* Supported encodings are:
*
* - UTF-8, with or without BOM
* - UTF-16, little endian, with BOM
*
* UTF-16 in big endian is explicitly NOT supported! The reason is two-fold:
* 1) Node does not support it without resorting to an external library (or
* swapping every byte in the file!); and 2) I'm not sure anything actually
* outputs in this format anyway!
*
* @param filename filename of the file to detect encoding
*/
function detectEncoding(filename: string): 'utf8' | 'utf16le' {
let buffer = readFileSync(filename);
// Note: BOM is U+FEFF
// In little endian, this is 0xFF 0xFE
if (buffer[0] == 0xFF && buffer[1] == 0xFE) {
return 'utf16le';
} else if (buffer[0] == 0xFE && buffer[1] == 0xFF) {
// Big Endian, is NOT supported because Node does not support it (???)
// See: https://stackoverflow.com/a/14551669/6626414
throw new Error('UTF-16BE is unsupported')
} else {
// Assume its in UTF-8, with or without a BOM.
return 'utf8';
}
}