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.. Copyright (C) 2001-2023 NLTK Project
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===========
Probability
===========

    >>> from nltk.test.probability_fixt import setup_module
    >>> setup_module()

    >>> import nltk
    >>> from nltk.probability import *

FreqDist
--------

    >>> text1 = ['no', 'good', 'fish', 'goes', 'anywhere', 'without', 'a', 'porpoise', '!']
    >>> text2 = ['no', 'good', 'porpoise', 'likes', 'to', 'fish', 'fish', 'anywhere', '.']

    >>> fd1 = nltk.FreqDist(text1)
    >>> fd1 == nltk.FreqDist(text1)
    True

Note that items are sorted in order of decreasing frequency; two items of the same frequency appear in indeterminate order.

    >>> import itertools
    >>> both = nltk.FreqDist(text1 + text2)
    >>> both_most_common = both.most_common()
    >>> list(itertools.chain(*(sorted(ys) for k, ys in itertools.groupby(both_most_common, key=lambda t: t[1]))))
    [('fish', 3), ('anywhere', 2), ('good', 2), ('no', 2), ('porpoise', 2), ('!', 1), ('.', 1), ('a', 1), ('goes', 1), ('likes', 1), ('to', 1), ('without', 1)]

    >>> both == fd1 + nltk.FreqDist(text2)
    True
    >>> fd1 == nltk.FreqDist(text1) # But fd1 is unchanged
    True

    >>> fd2 = nltk.FreqDist(text2)
    >>> fd1.update(fd2)
    >>> fd1 == both
    True

    >>> fd1 = nltk.FreqDist(text1)
    >>> fd1.update(text2)
    >>> fd1 == both
    True

    >>> fd1 = nltk.FreqDist(text1)
    >>> fd2 = nltk.FreqDist(fd1)
    >>> fd2 == fd1
    True

``nltk.FreqDist`` can be pickled:

    >>> import pickle
    >>> fd1 = nltk.FreqDist(text1)
    >>> pickled = pickle.dumps(fd1)
    >>> fd1 == pickle.loads(pickled)
    True

Mathematical operations:

    >>> FreqDist('abbb') + FreqDist('bcc')
    FreqDist({'b': 4, 'c': 2, 'a': 1})
    >>> FreqDist('abbbc') - FreqDist('bccd')
    FreqDist({'b': 2, 'a': 1})
    >>> FreqDist('abbb') | FreqDist('bcc')
    FreqDist({'b': 3, 'c': 2, 'a': 1})
    >>> FreqDist('abbb') & FreqDist('bcc')
    FreqDist({'b': 1})

ConditionalFreqDist
-------------------

    >>> cfd1 = ConditionalFreqDist()
    >>> cfd1[1] = FreqDist('abbbb')
    >>> cfd1[2] = FreqDist('xxxxyy')
    >>> cfd1
    <ConditionalFreqDist with 2 conditions>

    >>> cfd2 = ConditionalFreqDist()
    >>> cfd2[1] = FreqDist('bbccc')
    >>> cfd2[2] = FreqDist('xxxyyyzz')
    >>> cfd2[3] = FreqDist('m')
    >>> cfd2
    <ConditionalFreqDist with 3 conditions>

    >>> r = cfd1 + cfd2
    >>> [(i,r[i]) for i in r.conditions()]
    [(1, FreqDist({'b': 6, 'c': 3, 'a': 1})), (2, FreqDist({'x': 7, 'y': 5, 'z': 2})), (3, FreqDist({'m': 1}))]

    >>> r = cfd1 - cfd2
    >>> [(i,r[i]) for i in r.conditions()]
    [(1, FreqDist({'b': 2, 'a': 1})), (2, FreqDist({'x': 1}))]

    >>> r = cfd1 | cfd2
    >>> [(i,r[i]) for i in r.conditions()]
    [(1, FreqDist({'b': 4, 'c': 3, 'a': 1})), (2, FreqDist({'x': 4, 'y': 3, 'z': 2})), (3, FreqDist({'m': 1}))]

    >>> r = cfd1 & cfd2
    >>> [(i,r[i]) for i in r.conditions()]
    [(1, FreqDist({'b': 2})), (2, FreqDist({'x': 3, 'y': 2}))]

Testing some HMM estimators
---------------------------

We extract a small part (500 sentences) of the Brown corpus

    >>> corpus = nltk.corpus.brown.tagged_sents(categories='adventure')[:500]
    >>> print(len(corpus))
    500

We create a HMM trainer - note that we need the tags and symbols
from the whole corpus, not just the training corpus

    >>> from nltk.util import unique_list
    >>> tag_set = unique_list(tag for sent in corpus for (word,tag) in sent)
    >>> print(len(tag_set))
    92
    >>> symbols = unique_list(word for sent in corpus for (word,tag) in sent)
    >>> print(len(symbols))
    1464
    >>> trainer = nltk.tag.HiddenMarkovModelTrainer(tag_set, symbols)

We divide the corpus into 90% training and 10% testing

    >>> train_corpus = []
    >>> test_corpus = []
    >>> for i in range(len(corpus)):
    ...     if i % 10:
    ...         train_corpus += [corpus[i]]
    ...     else:
    ...         test_corpus += [corpus[i]]
    >>> print(len(train_corpus))
    450
    >>> print(len(test_corpus))
    50

And now we can test the estimators

    >>> def train_and_test(est):
    ...     hmm = trainer.train_supervised(train_corpus, estimator=est)
    ...     print('%.2f%%' % (100 * hmm.accuracy(test_corpus)))

Maximum Likelihood Estimation
-----------------------------
- this resulted in an initialization error before r7209

    >>> mle = lambda fd, bins: MLEProbDist(fd)
    >>> train_and_test(mle)
    22.75%

Laplace (= Lidstone with gamma==1)

    >>> train_and_test(LaplaceProbDist)
    66.04%

Expected Likelihood Estimation (= Lidstone with gamma==0.5)

    >>> train_and_test(ELEProbDist)
    73.01%

Lidstone Estimation, for gamma==0.1, 0.5 and 1
(the later two should be exactly equal to MLE and ELE above)

    >>> def lidstone(gamma):
    ...     return lambda fd, bins: LidstoneProbDist(fd, gamma, bins)
    >>> train_and_test(lidstone(0.1))
    82.51%
    >>> train_and_test(lidstone(0.5))
    73.01%
    >>> train_and_test(lidstone(1.0))
    66.04%

Witten Bell Estimation
----------------------
- This resulted in ZeroDivisionError before r7209

    >>> train_and_test(WittenBellProbDist)
    88.12%

Good Turing Estimation

    >>> gt = lambda fd, bins: SimpleGoodTuringProbDist(fd, bins=1e5)
    >>> train_and_test(gt)
    86.93%

Kneser Ney Estimation
---------------------
Since the Kneser-Ney distribution is best suited for trigrams, we must adjust
our testing accordingly.

    >>> corpus = [[((x[0],y[0],z[0]),(x[1],y[1],z[1]))
    ...     for x, y, z in nltk.trigrams(sent)]
    ...         for sent in corpus[:100]]

We will then need to redefine the rest of the training/testing variables

    >>> tag_set = unique_list(tag for sent in corpus for (word,tag) in sent)
    >>> len(tag_set)
    906

    >>> symbols = unique_list(word for sent in corpus for (word,tag) in sent)
    >>> len(symbols)
    1341

    >>> trainer = nltk.tag.HiddenMarkovModelTrainer(tag_set, symbols)
    >>> train_corpus = []
    >>> test_corpus = []

    >>> for i in range(len(corpus)):
    ...    if i % 10:
    ...        train_corpus += [corpus[i]]
    ...    else:
    ...        test_corpus += [corpus[i]]

    >>> len(train_corpus)
    90
    >>> len(test_corpus)
    10

    >>> kn = lambda fd, bins: KneserNeyProbDist(fd)
    >>> train_and_test(kn)
    0.86%

Remains to be added:
- Tests for HeldoutProbDist, CrossValidationProbDist and MutableProbDist

Squashed bugs
-------------

Issue 511: override pop and popitem to invalidate the cache

    >>> fd = nltk.FreqDist('a')
    >>> list(fd.keys())
    ['a']
    >>> fd.pop('a')
    1
    >>> list(fd.keys())
    []

Issue 533: access cumulative frequencies with no arguments

    >>> fd = nltk.FreqDist('aab')
    >>> list(fd._cumulative_frequencies(['a']))
    [2.0]
    >>> list(fd._cumulative_frequencies(['a', 'b']))
    [2.0, 3.0]

Issue 579: override clear to reset some variables

    >>> fd = FreqDist('aab')
    >>> fd.clear()
    >>> fd.N()
    0

Issue 351: fix fileids method of CategorizedCorpusReader to inadvertently
add errant categories

    >>> from nltk.corpus import brown
    >>> brown.fileids('blah')
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      ...
    ValueError: Category blah not found
    >>> brown.categories()
    ['adventure', 'belles_lettres', 'editorial', 'fiction', 'government', 'hobbies', 'humor', 'learned', 'lore', 'mystery', 'news', 'religion', 'reviews', 'romance', 'science_fiction']

Issue 175: add the unseen bin to SimpleGoodTuringProbDist by default
otherwise any unseen events get a probability of zero, i.e.,
they don't get smoothed



    >>> from nltk import SimpleGoodTuringProbDist, FreqDist

    >>> fd = FreqDist({'a':1, 'b':1, 'c': 2, 'd': 3, 'e': 4, 'f': 4, 'g': 4, 'h': 5, 'i': 5, 'j': 6, 'k': 6, 'l': 6, 'm': 7, 'n': 7, 'o': 8, 'p': 9, 'q': 10})

    >>> p = SimpleGoodTuringProbDist(fd)

    >>> p.prob('a')

    0.017649766667026317...

    >>> p.prob('o')

    0.08433050215340411...

    >>> p.prob('z')

    0.022727272727272728...

    >>> p.prob('foobar')

    0.022727272727272728...



``MLEProbDist``, ``ConditionalProbDist'', ``DictionaryConditionalProbDist`` and

``ConditionalFreqDist`` can be pickled:



    >>> import pickle

    >>> pd = MLEProbDist(fd)

    >>> sorted(pd.samples()) == sorted(pickle.loads(pickle.dumps(pd)).samples())

    True

    >>> dpd = DictionaryConditionalProbDist({'x': pd})

    >>> unpickled = pickle.loads(pickle.dumps(dpd))

    >>> dpd['x'].prob('a')

    0.011363636...

    >>> dpd['x'].prob('a') == unpickled['x'].prob('a')

    True

    >>> cfd = nltk.probability.ConditionalFreqDist()

    >>> cfd['foo']['hello'] += 1

    >>> cfd['foo']['hello'] += 1

    >>> cfd['bar']['hello'] += 1

    >>> cfd2 = pickle.loads(pickle.dumps(cfd))

    >>> cfd2 == cfd

    True

    >>> cpd = ConditionalProbDist(cfd, SimpleGoodTuringProbDist)

    >>> cpd2 = pickle.loads(pickle.dumps(cpd))

    >>> cpd['foo'].prob('hello') == cpd2['foo'].prob('hello')

    True