Changes

0.5 (2017-05-10)

  • webstruct.model.NER now uses requests library to make HTTP requests;
  • changed default headers used by webstruct.model.NER;
  • new webstruct.infer_domain module useful for proper cross-validation;
  • webstruct.webannotator.to_webannotator got an option to add <base> tag with the original URL to the page;
  • fixed a warning in webstruct.gazetteers.geonames.read_geonames;
  • add a few more country names to countries.txt list.

0.4.1 (2016-11-28)

  • fixed a bug in NER.extract().

0.4 (2016-11-26)

  • sklearn-crfsuite is used as a CRFsuite wrapper, CRFsuiteCRF class is removed;
  • comments are preserved in HTML trees because recent Firefox puts <base> tags to a comment when saving pages, and this affects WebAnnotator;
  • fixed ‘dont_penalize’ argument of webstruct.NER.extract_groups_from_url;
  • new webstruct.model.extract_entity_groups utility function;
  • HtmlTokenizer and HtmlToken are moved to their own module (webstruct.html_tokenizer);
  • test improvements;

0.3 (2016-09-19)

There are many changes from previous version: API is changed, Python 3 is supported, better gazetteers support, CRFsuite support, etc.