""" Script used to clean the data. """ import os import re from nltk import tokenize def clean_aochildes(lines): """ For aochildes, we remove the space between the punctuation mark and the final word and join together every 5 lines """ new_lines = [] joined = [] for i, line in enumerate(lines): new_line = line[:-3] + line[-2:] joined.append(new_line.strip()) if i % 5 == 0: new_lines.append(" ".join(joined) + "\n") joined = [] return new_lines def clean_bnc_spoken(lines): """ For bnc_spoken, we lowercase """ new_lines = [] for line in lines: new_line = line.lower() if new_line != '\n': new_lines.append(new_line) return new_lines def clean_cbt(lines): """ For cbt, we lowercase and normalise punctuation """ punctuation = ['.', ',', '?', '!', ':', ';', '(', ')', '[', ']', '{', '}', '"', "'", '“', '”', '—', '–'] new_lines = [] for line in lines: new_line = line.lower() new_line = new_line.replace(": ' ", ": \"") new_line = new_line.replace("''", "\"") new_line = new_line.replace(" '\n", "\"\n") new_line = new_line.replace(" ' ", "\" ") new_line = new_line.replace(" `` ", " \"") new_line = new_line.replace("` ", " \"") new_line = new_line.replace("`", "\"") new_line = new_line.replace("’", "\"") for punct in punctuation: new_line = new_line.replace(f" {punct}", punct) new_lines.append(new_line) return new_lines def clean_children_stories(lines): """ For children_stories, we lowercase """ new_lines = [] for line in lines: new_line = line.lower().strip() if new_line != '': new_lines.append(new_line + "\n") return new_lines def clean_gutenberg(lines): """ For gutenberg, we lowercase, remove italics and group lines into paragraphs. We also remove any lines containing '*' or 'p.' """ # Get paragraphs paragraphs = [] paragraph = "" for line in lines: # Remove italics tmp_line = line.lower().strip().replace('_','') if tmp_line == "" and paragraph != "": if len(paragraph.split()) > 2 and not paragraph.split()[-1][-1].isnumeric(): # Remove paragraphs with less than 3 words and those that end in a number (probably part of a bibliography) paragraphs.append(paragraph[:-1] + '\n') paragraph = "" else: paragraph += tmp_line + " " # Bad characters - gutenberg has a lot of figures, footnotes, chapter names etc that we want to remove bad_chars = ['*', 'p.', '=', '|', '[', ']', ' ', ' ', 'v.'] new_lines = [p.strip()+'\n' for p in paragraphs if not any([c in p for c in bad_chars]) and p != '' and p != '\n' and p[0] != '('] return new_lines def clean_open_subtitles(lines): """ For open_subtitles, we lowercase, remove subtitle dashes and fix the lowercase 'l' problem. We also join every 5 lines. """ punctuation = ['.', ',', '?', '!', ':', ';', '(', ')', '[', ']', '{', '}', '"', "'", '“', '”', '—', '–', ' ', '\n'] new_lines = [] joined = [] count = 0 for line in lines: new_line = line.lower() # Skip music lines if '♪' in new_line or '[' in new_line or ']' in new_line or '‎' in new_line: continue if new_line[0:2] in ["- ", "– ", "— "]: new_line = new_line[2:] if new_line[0] in ["-", "–", "—"]: new_line = new_line[1:] new_line = ' ' + new_line for punct in punctuation: new_line = new_line.replace(f" l{punct}", f" i{punct}") new_line = new_line.replace(f" lm{punct}", f" im{punct}") new_line = new_line.replace(f" lf{punct}", f" if{punct}") new_line = new_line.replace(' lc', ' ic') new_line = new_line.replace(' ld', ' id') new_line = new_line.replace(' lj', ' i j') new_line = new_line.replace(' ln', ' in') new_line = new_line.replace(' lp', ' ip') new_line = new_line.replace(' lr', ' ir') new_line = new_line.replace(' ls', ' is') new_line = new_line.replace(' isd', ' lsd') new_line = new_line.replace(' lt', ' it') new_line = new_line.replace(' lt', ' it') new_line = new_line.replace(' lv', ' iv') if new_line.strip() != '': joined.append(new_line.strip()) count += 1 if count % 5 == 0: new_lines.append(" ".join(joined) + '\n') joined = [] return new_lines def clean_qed(lines): """ For qed, we lowercase and normalise punctuation, remove words contained in parentheses, remove lines that are just character's names and fix the lowercase 'l' problem. We also join every 5 lines. """ new_lines = [] count = 0 joined = [] for line in lines: # Before lowercasing, check if the words in the line are uppercase containing lowercase 'l' instead of 'I' and fix accordingly words = line.split() for i, word in enumerate(words): if word.replace('l','I').isupper() and 'l' in word and word != 'I\'ll': words[i] = word.replace('l', 'I') new_line = ' '.join(words).lower() new_line = new_line.replace(' lc', ' ic') new_line = new_line.replace(' ld', ' id') new_line = new_line.replace(' lj', ' i j') new_line = new_line.replace(' ln', ' in') new_line = new_line.replace(' lp', ' ip') new_line = new_line.replace(' lr', ' ir') new_line = new_line.replace(' ls', ' is') new_line = new_line.replace(' isd', ' lsd') new_line = new_line.replace(' lt', ' it') new_line = new_line.replace(' lt', ' it') new_line = new_line.replace(' lv', ' iv') # Skip lines that are just character names, e.g. "AMY GOODMAN:" if len(new_line.strip()) < 1 or (len(words) <= 3 and new_line.strip()[-1] == ':'): continue # Remove subtitle dashes if new_line[0:2] == "- ": new_line = new_line[2:] if new_line[0] == "-": new_line = new_line[1:] # Remove substrings contained within circular or square parantheses (screen descriptions) pattern = r'\([^)]*\)' new_line = re.sub(pattern, '', new_line) pattern = r'\[[^)]*\]' new_line = re.sub(pattern, '', new_line) new_line = new_line.replace('"', '\'') # Remove strange characters new_line = new_line.replace('#','') new_line = new_line.replace('*','') new_line = new_line.strip() if new_line != "": joined.append(new_line) count += 1 if count % 5 == 0: new_lines.append(" ".join(joined) + '\n') joined = [] return new_lines def clean_simple_wikipedia(lines): """ For simple_wikipedia, we lowercase, remove empty lines and article names.""" new_lines = [] next_line_is_article_name = False for line in lines: if next_line_is_article_name: next_line_is_article_name = False continue if line.strip() == "": next_line_is_article_name = True continue if len(line.split()) > 2: new_lines.append(line.lower()) return new_lines def clean_switchboard(lines): """ For switchboard, we lowercase and join every 5 lines. """ new_lines = [] count = 0 joined = [] for line in lines: new_line = line.lower().strip() joined.append(new_line) count += 1 if count % 10 == 0: new_lines.append(" ".join(joined) + '\n') joined = [] return new_lines def clean_wikipedia(lines): """ For wikipedia, we lowercase and remove empty lines and article names. We also remove lines that seem to be figure names or table entries. """ new_lines = [] for line in lines: new_line = line.strip() words = new_line.split() # Remove empty lines and article names if new_line == "": continue if new_line[0] == "=" and new_line[-1] == "=": continue # Filter out lines that seem to be figure names or table entries all_numeric = True all_uppercase = True for word in words: if not word.isnumeric(): all_numeric = False if not word[0].isupper(): all_uppercase = False if all_numeric or all_uppercase: continue new_lines.append(new_line.lower().strip() + '\n') return new_lines CLEAN_FUNCTIONS = {'aochildes' : clean_aochildes, 'bnc_spoken' : clean_bnc_spoken, 'cbt' : clean_cbt, 'children_stories' : clean_children_stories, 'gutenberg' : clean_gutenberg, 'open_subtitles' : clean_open_subtitles, 'qed' : clean_qed, 'simple_wikipedia' : clean_simple_wikipedia, 'switchboard' : clean_switchboard, 'wikipedia' : clean_wikipedia} FOLDERS = ['10M', '100M', 'dev', 'test'] if __name__ == "__main__": # Read all text files from directory "BabyLM" all_files = [] for folder in FOLDERS: for root, dirs, files in os.walk(f"original/{folder}"): for file in files: if file.endswith(".txt"): all_files.append(os.path.join(root, file)) for file in all_files: print(file) with open(file, 'r') as f: lines = f.readlines() # Get the corpus name corpus_name = os.path.basename(file).split('.')[0] # Clean the data if CLEAN_FUNCTIONS[corpus_name] is not None: lines = CLEAN_FUNCTIONS[corpus_name](lines) # Replace multiple spaces with single space lines = [re.sub(' +', ' ', line) for line in lines if line.strip() != ''] # Write the new file new_file = file.replace('original', 'clean') os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(new_file), exist_ok=True) with open(new_file, 'w') as f: f.writelines(lines)