ngram_build_main.cc

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/*                 Authors:  Simon King                                  */
/*                 Date   :  July 1995                                   */
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/*                 EST_Ngrammar build program                            */
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/*=======================================================================*/

#include <cstdlib>
#include "EST.h"
#include "EST_Ngrammar.h"
#include "EST_Pathname.h"

using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    int order;
    EST_StrList files;
    EST_Option al, op;
    EST_String wordlist_file,wordlist_file2, out_file, format;
    EST_String prev_tag(""), prev_prev_tag(""), last_tag("");
    EST_String input_format(""), oov_mode(""), oov_marker("");
    EST_Ngrammar::representation_t representation = 
    EST_Ngrammar::dense;

    EST_StrList wordlist,wordlist2;
    EST_Ngrammar ngrammar;
    bool trace=false;
    double floor=0.0;

    parse_command_line
    (argc, argv, 
     EST_String("[input file0] [input file1] ... -o [output file]\n")+
     "-w <ifile>       filename containing word list (required)\n"+
     "-p <ifile>       filename containing predictee word list\n"+
         "                  (default is to use wordlist given by -w)\n"+
     "-order <int>     order, 1=unigram, 2=bigram etc. (default 2)\n"+
     "-smooth <int>    Good-Turing smooth the grammar up to the\n"+
         "                 given frequency\n"+
     "-o <ofile>       Output file for constructed ngram\n"+
     "\n"
     "-input_format <string>\n"+
         "                 format of input data (default sentence_per_line)\n"+
     "                 may be sentence_per_file, ngram_per_line.\n"+
     "-otype <string>  format of output file, one of cstr_ascii\n"+
         "                 cstr_bin or htk_ascii\n"+
     "-sparse          build ngram in sparse representation\n"+
         "-dense           build ngram in dense representation (default)\n"+
         "-backoff <int>\n"+
         "                 build backoff ngram (requires -smooth)\n"+
         "-floor <double>\n"+
         "                 frequency floor value used with some ngrams\n"+
     "-freqsmooth <int>\n"+
         "                 build frequency backed off smoothed ngram, this\n"+
         "                 requires -smooth option\n"+
         "-trace           give verbose outout about build process\n"+
         "-save_compressed save ngram in gzipped format\n"+
         "-oov_mode <string>\n"+
         "                 what to do about out-of-vocabulary words,\n"+
         "                 one of skip_ngram, skip_sentence (default),\n"+
         "                 skip_file, or use_oov_marker\n"+
         "-oov_marker <string>\n"+
         "                 special word for oov words (default "+OOV_MARKER+")\n"+
         "                 (use in conjunction with '-oov_mode use_oov_marker'\n"+
         "\n"+
     "Pseudo-words :\n"+
     "-prev_tag <string>\n"+
         "                 tag before sentence start\n"+
     "-prev_prev_tag <string>\n"+
         "                 all words before 'prev_tag'\n"+
     "-last_tag <string>\n"+
         "                 after sentence end\n"+
     "-default_tags    use default tags of "+SENTENCE_START_MARKER+
            ","+SENTENCE_END_MARKER+" and "+SENTENCE_END_MARKER+"\n"+
         "                 respectively\n",
            files, al);

    if (al.present("-input_format"))
    input_format = al.val("-input_format");
    else
    input_format = "sentence_per_line";

    if (al.present("-oov_mode"))
    oov_mode = al.val("-oov_mode");
    else
    oov_mode = "skip_sentence";


    if(al.present("-oov_marker"))
    {
    if(oov_mode != "use_oov_marker")
    {
        cerr << "Error : can only use -oov_marker with '-oov_mode use_oov_marker'" << endl;
        exit(1);
    }
    else
        oov_marker = al.val("-oov_marker");

    // should check oov marker is/isn't (?) in vocab
    // ......
    }

    if( (oov_mode != "skip_ngram") &&
       (oov_mode != "skip_sentence") &&
       (oov_mode != "skip_file") &&
       (oov_mode != "use_oov_marker") )
    {
    cerr << oov_mode << " is not a valid oov_mode !" << endl;
    exit(1);
    }

    if (al.present("-w"))
    wordlist_file = al.val("-w");
    else{
    cerr << "build_ngram: Must specify a wordlist with -w" << endl;
    exit(1);
    }

    if (load_StrList(wordlist_file,wordlist) != format_ok)
    {
    cerr << "build_ngram: Could not read wordlist from file " 
        << wordlist_file << endl;
    exit(1);
    }


    if (al.present("-p"))
    {

    if(input_format != "ngram_per_line")
    {
        cerr << "Can't have differering predictor/predictee lists unless data is in ngram_per_line format !" << endl;
        exit(1);
    }

    wordlist_file2 = al.val("-p");
    if (load_StrList(wordlist_file2,wordlist2) != format_ok)
    {
        cerr << "build_ngram: Could not read predictee list from file " 
        << wordlist_file2 << endl;
        exit(1);
    }
    }

    if (al.present("-trace"))
    trace=true;

    if (al.present("-o"))
    out_file = al.val("-o");
    else
    out_file = "-";
    
    if (al.present("-default_tags"))
    {   
    prev_tag = SENTENCE_START_MARKER;
    prev_prev_tag = SENTENCE_END_MARKER;
    last_tag = SENTENCE_END_MARKER;

    wordlist.append(SENTENCE_START_MARKER);
    wordlist.append(SENTENCE_END_MARKER);

    if (al.present("-p"))
    {
        wordlist2.append(SENTENCE_START_MARKER);
        wordlist2.append(SENTENCE_END_MARKER);
    }
    }
    
    if (al.present("-prev_tag"))
    {
    if (al.present("-default_tags"))
        cerr << "build_ngram: WARNING : -prev_tag overrides -default_tags"
        << endl;
    prev_tag = al.val("-prev_tag");
    }

    if (al.present("-prev_prev_tag"))
    {
    if (al.present("-default_tags"))
        cerr << "build_ngram: WARNING : -prev_prev_tag overrides -default_tags" 
        << endl;
    prev_prev_tag = al.val("-prev_prev_tag");
    }   
    
    if (al.present("-last_tag"))
    {
    if (al.present("-default_tags"))
        cerr << "build_ngram: WARNING : -last_tag overrides -default_tags"
        << endl;
    last_tag = al.val("-last_tag");
    }

    if (   ( (prev_tag=="") ||  (prev_prev_tag=="") || (last_tag=="") )
    && ( (prev_tag!="") ||  (prev_prev_tag!="") || (last_tag!="") )   )
    {
    cerr << "build_ngram: ERROR : if any tags are given, ALL must be given"
        << endl;
    exit(1);
    }

    if (al.present("-order"))
    order = al.ival("-order");
    else
    {
    cerr << "build_ngram: WARNING : No order specified with -order : defaulting to bigram" 
        << endl;
    order = 2;
    }

    if (al.present("-otype"))
    format = al.val("-otype");
    else
    format = "";

    if (al.present("-floor"))
    floor = al.dval("-floor");
    else
    floor = 0.0;

    if (al.present("-backoff"))
    if (!al.present("-smooth"))
    {
        cerr << "build_ngram: backoff requires smooth value" << endl;
        exit(-1);
    }
    if (al.present("-freqsmooth"))
    if (!al.present("-smooth"))
    {
        cerr << "build_ngram: frequency smooth requires smooth value"
        << endl;
        exit(-1);
    }

    if (al.present("-dense"))
    representation = EST_Ngrammar::dense;
    else if (al.present("-sparse"))
    {
    cerr << "build_ngram: Sorry, sparse representation is not yet available " << endl;
    exit(1);
    representation = EST_Ngrammar::sparse;
    }
    else if (al.present("-backoff"))
    representation = EST_Ngrammar::backoff;
    else
    cerr << "build_ngram: Defaulting to dense representation" << endl;
    
    if (al.present("-p"))
    {
    if (!ngrammar.init(order,representation,wordlist,wordlist2))
    {
        cerr << "build_ngram: Failed to initialise " << order << "-gram" << endl;
        exit(1);
    }
    }
    else
    {
    if (!ngrammar.init(order,representation,wordlist))
    {
        cerr << "build_ngram: Failed to initialise " << order << "-gram" << endl;
        exit(1);
    }
    }

    
    if ( al.present("-backoff") )
    {
    if (!ngrammar.build(files,prev_tag,prev_prev_tag,
                last_tag,input_format,oov_mode,
                al.ival("-backoff"),al.ival("-smooth")))
    {         
        cerr << "build_ngram: Failed to build backoff " << order 
        << "-gram" << endl;
        exit(1);
    }
    else if (trace)
        cerr << "build_ngram: Built backoff " << order << 
        "-gram" << endl;
    }
    else
    {
    if (!ngrammar.build(files,prev_tag,prev_prev_tag,
                last_tag,input_format,oov_mode))
    {
        cerr << "build_ngram: Failed to build " << order << "-gram" << endl;
        exit(1);
    }
    else
        if(trace)
        cerr << "build_ngram: Built " << order << "-gram" << endl;
    }

    
    // Posit processing functions
    if (al.present("-freqsmooth"))
    {
    Ngram_freqsmooth(ngrammar,al.ival("-smooth"),al.ival("-freqsmooth"));
    }
    else if (al.present("-smooth") && !al.present("-backoff"))
    {
    int smoothcount = atoi(al.val("-smooth"));
    if(!Good_Turing_smooth(ngrammar,smoothcount))
    {
        cerr << "build_ngram: Failed to smooth " << order << "-gram" << endl;
        exit(1);
    }
    else
        if(trace)
        cerr << "build_ngram: Good Turing smoothed " << order << "-gram" << endl;
    
    }
    
    // save
    if (al.present("-save_compressed"))
    {
    EST_String tmp_file = make_tmp_filename();
    if (ngrammar.save(tmp_file,format,trace,floor) == write_ok)
    {
        EST_String prog_name;
        EST_Pathname tmp(out_file);
        if (tmp.extension() == GZIP_FILENAME_EXTENSION)
        prog_name = "gzip --stdout";
        else if (tmp.extension() == COMPRESS_FILENAME_EXTENSION)
        prog_name = "compress -c";
        else        // default
        {
        prog_name = "gzip --stdout";
        if(out_file != "-")
            out_file = out_file + "." + GZIP_FILENAME_EXTENSION;
        }
        
        if (trace)
        cerr << "build_ngram: Compressing with '" << prog_name << "'" << endl;
        
        // now compress
        if(compress_file(tmp_file,out_file,prog_name) != 0)
        {
        cerr << "build_ngram: Failed to compress to file "
            << out_file << endl;
        (void)delete_file(tmp_file);
        exit(1);
        }
        
        (void)delete_file(tmp_file);
        
        if(trace)
        cerr << "build_ngram: Saved in compressed " << format
            << " format to " << out_file << endl;
    }
    else
    {
        cerr << "build_ngram: Failed to write temporary file " 
        << tmp_file << endl;
        exit(1);
    }
    
    
    }
    else
    {
    if (ngrammar.save(out_file,format,trace,floor) == write_ok)
    {
        if(trace)
        cerr << "build_ngram: Saved in " << format
            << " format to " << out_file << endl;
    }
    else
    {
        cerr << "build_ngram: Failed to save " << format << " format data to " 
        << out_file << endl;
        exit(1);
    }
    }
    
    
    // everything went okay
    return 0;
}