allennlp.modules.span_extractors¶

class allennlp.modules.span_extractors.span_extractor.SpanExtractor[source]

Bases: torch.nn.modules.module.Module, allennlp.common.registrable.Registrable

Many NLP models deal with representations of spans inside a sentence. SpanExtractors define methods for extracting and representing spans from a sentence.

SpanExtractors take a sequence tensor of shape (batch_size, timesteps, embedding_dim) and indices of shape (batch_size, num_spans, 2) and return a tensor of shape (batch_size, num_spans, …), forming some representation of the spans.

forward(self, sequence_tensor:torch.FloatTensor, span_indices:torch.LongTensor, sequence_mask:torch.LongTensor=None, span_indices_mask:torch.LongTensor=None)[source]

Given a sequence tensor, extract spans and return representations of them. Span representation can be computed in many different ways, such as concatenation of the start and end spans, attention over the vectors contained inside the span, etc.

Parameters
sequence_tensortorch.FloatTensor, required.

A tensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, embedding_size) representing an embedded sequence of words.

span_indicestorch.LongTensor, required.

A tensor of shape (batch_size, num_spans, 2), where the last dimension represents the inclusive start and end indices of the span to be extracted from the sequence_tensor.

sequence_masktorch.LongTensor, optional (default = None).

A tensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length) representing padded elements of the sequence.

span_indices_masktorch.LongTensor, optional (default = None).

A tensor of shape (batch_size, num_spans) representing the valid spans in the indices tensor. This mask is optional because sometimes it’s easier to worry about masking after calling this function, rather than passing a mask directly.

Returns
A tensor of shape (batch_size, num_spans, embedded_span_size),
where embedded_span_size depends on the way spans are represented.
get_input_dim(self) → int[source]

Returns the expected final dimension of the sequence_tensor.

get_output_dim(self) → int[source]

Returns the expected final dimension of the returned span representation.

class allennlp.modules.span_extractors.endpoint_span_extractor.EndpointSpanExtractor(input_dim: int, combination: str = 'x, y', num_width_embeddings: int = None, span_width_embedding_dim: int = None, bucket_widths: bool = False, use_exclusive_start_indices: bool = False)[source]

Represents spans as a combination of the embeddings of their endpoints. Additionally, the width of the spans can be embedded and concatenated on to the final combination.

The following types of representation are supported, assuming that x = span_start_embeddings and y = span_end_embeddings.

x, y, x*y, x+y, x-y, x/y, where each of those binary operations is performed elementwise. You can list as many combinations as you want, comma separated. For example, you might give x,y,x*y as the combination parameter to this class. The computed similarity function would then be [x; y; x*y], which can then be optionally concatenated with an embedded representation of the width of the span.

Parameters
input_dimint, required.

The final dimension of the sequence_tensor.

combinationstr, optional (default = “x,y”).

The method used to combine the start_embedding and end_embedding representations. See above for a full description.

num_width_embeddingsint, optional (default = None).

Specifies the number of buckets to use when representing span width features.

span_width_embedding_dimint, optional (default = None).

The embedding size for the span_width features.

bucket_widthsbool, optional (default = False).

Whether to bucket the span widths into log-space buckets. If False, the raw span widths are used.

use_exclusive_start_indicesbool, optional (default = False).

If True, the start indices extracted are converted to exclusive indices. Sentinels are used to represent exclusive span indices for the elements in the first position in the sequence (as the exclusive indices for these elements are outside of the the sequence boundary) so that start indices can be exclusive. NOTE: This option can be helpful to avoid the pathological case in which you want span differences for length 1 spans - if you use inclusive indices, you will end up with an x - x operation for length 1 spans, which is not good.

forward(self, sequence_tensor:torch.FloatTensor, span_indices:torch.LongTensor, sequence_mask:torch.LongTensor=None, span_indices_mask:torch.LongTensor=None) → None[source]

Given a sequence tensor, extract spans and return representations of them. Span representation can be computed in many different ways, such as concatenation of the start and end spans, attention over the vectors contained inside the span, etc.

Parameters
sequence_tensortorch.FloatTensor, required.

A tensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, embedding_size) representing an embedded sequence of words.

span_indicestorch.LongTensor, required.

A tensor of shape (batch_size, num_spans, 2), where the last dimension represents the inclusive start and end indices of the span to be extracted from the sequence_tensor.

sequence_masktorch.LongTensor, optional (default = None).

A tensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length) representing padded elements of the sequence.

span_indices_masktorch.LongTensor, optional (default = None).

A tensor of shape (batch_size, num_spans) representing the valid spans in the indices tensor. This mask is optional because sometimes it’s easier to worry about masking after calling this function, rather than passing a mask directly.

Returns
A tensor of shape (batch_size, num_spans, embedded_span_size),
where embedded_span_size depends on the way spans are represented.
get_input_dim(self) → int[source]

Returns the expected final dimension of the sequence_tensor.

get_output_dim(self) → int[source]

Returns the expected final dimension of the returned span representation.

class allennlp.modules.span_extractors.self_attentive_span_extractor.SelfAttentiveSpanExtractor(input_dim: int)[source]

Computes span representations by generating an unnormalized attention score for each word in the document. Spans representations are computed with respect to these scores by normalising the attention scores for words inside the span.

Given these attention distributions over every span, this module weights the corresponding vector representations of the words in the span by this distribution, returning a weighted representation of each span.

Parameters
input_dimint, required.

The final dimension of the sequence_tensor.

Returns
attended_text_embeddingstorch.FloatTensor.

A tensor of shape (batch_size, num_spans, input_dim), which each span representation is formed by locally normalising a global attention over the sequence. The only way in which the attention distribution differs over different spans is in the set of words over which they are normalized.

forward(self, sequence_tensor:torch.FloatTensor, span_indices:torch.LongTensor, sequence_mask:torch.LongTensor=None, span_indices_mask:torch.LongTensor=None) → torch.FloatTensor[source]

Given a sequence tensor, extract spans and return representations of them. Span representation can be computed in many different ways, such as concatenation of the start and end spans, attention over the vectors contained inside the span, etc.

Parameters
sequence_tensortorch.FloatTensor, required.

A tensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, embedding_size) representing an embedded sequence of words.

span_indicestorch.LongTensor, required.

A tensor of shape (batch_size, num_spans, 2), where the last dimension represents the inclusive start and end indices of the span to be extracted from the sequence_tensor.

sequence_masktorch.LongTensor, optional (default = None).

A tensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length) representing padded elements of the sequence.

span_indices_masktorch.LongTensor, optional (default = None).

A tensor of shape (batch_size, num_spans) representing the valid spans in the indices tensor. This mask is optional because sometimes it’s easier to worry about masking after calling this function, rather than passing a mask directly.

Returns
A tensor of shape (batch_size, num_spans, embedded_span_size),
where embedded_span_size depends on the way spans are represented.
get_input_dim(self) → int[source]

Returns the expected final dimension of the sequence_tensor.

get_output_dim(self) → int[source]

Returns the expected final dimension of the returned span representation.

class allennlp.modules.span_extractors.bidirectional_endpoint_span_extractor.BidirectionalEndpointSpanExtractor(input_dim: int, forward_combination: str = 'y-x', backward_combination: str = 'x-y', num_width_embeddings: int = None, span_width_embedding_dim: int = None, bucket_widths: bool = False, use_sentinels: bool = True)[source]

Represents spans from a bidirectional encoder as a concatenation of two different representations of the span endpoints, one for the forward direction of the encoder and one from the backward direction. This type of representation encodes some subtlety, because when you consider the forward and backward directions separately, the end index of the span for the backward direction’s representation is actually the start index.

By default, this SpanExtractor represents spans as sequence_tensor[inclusive_span_end] - sequence_tensor[exclusive_span_start] meaning that the representation is the difference between the the last word in the span and the word before the span started. Note that the start and end indices are with respect to the direction that the RNN is going in, so for the backward direction, the start/end indices are reversed.

Additionally, the width of the spans can be embedded and concatenated on to the final combination.

The following other types of representation are supported for both the forward and backward directions, assuming that x = span_start_embeddings and y = span_end_embeddings.

x, y, x*y, x+y, x-y, x/y, where each of those binary operations is performed elementwise. You can list as many combinations as you want, comma separated. For example, you might give x,y,x*y as the combination parameter to this class. The computed similarity function would then be [x; y; x*y], which can then be optionally concatenated with an embedded representation of the width of the span.

Parameters
input_dimint, required.

The final dimension of the sequence_tensor.

forward_combinationstr, optional (default = “y-x”).

The method used to combine the forward_start_embeddings and forward_end_embeddings for the forward direction of the bidirectional representation. See above for a full description.

backward_combinationstr, optional (default = “x-y”).

The method used to combine the backward_start_embeddings and backward_end_embeddings for the backward direction of the bidirectional representation. See above for a full description.

num_width_embeddingsint, optional (default = None).

Specifies the number of buckets to use when representing span width features.

span_width_embedding_dimint, optional (default = None).

The embedding size for the span_width features.

bucket_widthsbool, optional (default = False).

Whether to bucket the span widths into log-space buckets. If False, the raw span widths are used.

use_sentinelsbool, optional (default = True).

If True, sentinels are used to represent exclusive span indices for the elements in the first and last positions in the sequence (as the exclusive indices for these elements are outside of the the sequence boundary). This is not strictly necessary, as you may know that your exclusive start and end indices are always within your sequence representation, such as if you have appended/prepended <START> and <END> tokens to your sequence.

forward(self, sequence_tensor:torch.FloatTensor, span_indices:torch.LongTensor, sequence_mask:torch.LongTensor=None, span_indices_mask:torch.LongTensor=None) → torch.FloatTensor[source]

Given a sequence tensor, extract spans and return representations of them. Span representation can be computed in many different ways, such as concatenation of the start and end spans, attention over the vectors contained inside the span, etc.

Parameters
sequence_tensortorch.FloatTensor, required.

A tensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, embedding_size) representing an embedded sequence of words.

span_indicestorch.LongTensor, required.

A tensor of shape (batch_size, num_spans, 2), where the last dimension represents the inclusive start and end indices of the span to be extracted from the sequence_tensor.

sequence_masktorch.LongTensor, optional (default = None).

A tensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length) representing padded elements of the sequence.

span_indices_masktorch.LongTensor, optional (default = None).

A tensor of shape (batch_size, num_spans) representing the valid spans in the indices tensor. This mask is optional because sometimes it’s easier to worry about masking after calling this function, rather than passing a mask directly.

Returns
A tensor of shape (batch_size, num_spans, embedded_span_size),
where embedded_span_size depends on the way spans are represented.
get_input_dim(self) → int[source]

Returns the expected final dimension of the sequence_tensor.

get_output_dim(self) → int[source]

Returns the expected final dimension of the returned span representation.