ko_noiser - a synthetic sentence noise generator for korean

Inspired by the operations performed in "Korean Grammatical Error Correction Based on Transformer with Copying Mechanisms and Grammatical Noise Implantation Methods" and similar efforts to generate synthetic errors in korean sentences.

dependencies

• hangul-utils (without optional dependencies)

install

Installation should work using:

pip install git+https://github.com/ketzu/konoise.git

Usage

Konoise exposes a Konoise and Config class. The Konoise class exposes multiple functions, but the intended interface is process(sentence[, config]). The process function takes a sentence and performs various probabilistic errors based on the configuration.

Example:

In [1]: import random
In [2]: random.seed(15)
In [3]: from konoise import Konoise
In [4]: noise = Konoise()
In [5]: test = '나는 집을 깨끗이 청소했다.'
In [6]: noise.process(test)
Out[6]: '나는 집을 깨끋이 청소핻다.'

Inner Workings

Currently Konoise creates errors of 3 types:

• G2P based errors: Words or whole sentences are changed to a pronounciation based form.
• Typo based errors: Based on a typo map (see konoise/config.py) typos are randomly generated on the jamo level.
• Deletion errors: there is a small probability to miss a jamo or accidentally delete it.
• Spacing based: There is a chance any existing space is deleted or a random space is introduced between composed characters.

Config

The config object can be passed to the inital creation of the Konoise object or to every call to process.

The config has the following, semi self-explanatory options:

# G2P config
self.enable_idiom_replacement = True

# typo config
self.enable_typos = True
self.sentece_typo_rate = 0.85
self.max_typos = 10

# deletions config
self.enable_deletions = True
self.sentence_deletion_rate = 0.01
self.max_deletions = 1

# spacing
self.enable_spacing = True
self.space_del_probability = 0.05
self.space_add_probability = 0.03

Alternative to ko_noiser

There seems to exist a project with the same original name konoise on pypi or github doing something similar.

Data sources

The current idioms list is taken from g2pK, neccesitating a license switch to Apache for simplicity. It's a cool project.

Contributions

Contributions are welcome. NLP and korean are not my areas of expertise.