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- Title now 'Persian (Farsi) pipelines for spaCy'
- Section order: intro, Results, Install, Caveats, Build, Design decisions,
  Why not hazm, More -- numbers before any provenance argument
- Install points at published HF wheels instead of local packages/*.whl
  paths, verified against a clean venv
- Dropped ## Roadmap (mirrored in gitignored TODO.md) and
  ## Licensing drove most decisions here (superseded by docs/MODELS.md)
- Trimmed provenance/build-trivia prose; kept every score, the hazm
  comparison, and the four design decisions verbatim
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# fa_core_news_sm and fa_dep_news_sm, Persian pipelines for spaCy # Persian (Farsi) pipelines for spaCy
spaCy has no trained Persian pipeline. `spacy.load("fa_core_news_sm")` has never worked, and Trained spaCy pipelines for Persian, built from UD_Persian-PerDT and installable now. spaCy has
`spacy.blank("fa")` gives you a tokenizer and stop words. This project trains one from never shipped one, and `spacy.blank("fa")` gives you a tokenizer and stop words.
openly-licensed data so the result can be redistributed.
- Pipeline inventory and source analysis: [`docs/MODELS.md`](docs/MODELS.md) ```bash
- How spaCy models get published, and what upstream `fa` already has: pip install https://huggingface.co/Phazel/fa_core_news_sm/resolve/main/fa_core_news_sm-any-py3-none-any.whl
[`docs/CONTRIBUTING-GUIDE.md`](docs/CONTRIBUTING-GUIDE.md) ```
- The build: [`project.yml`](project.yml)
## Two packages, one corpus ## Results
In spaCy's naming scheme `dep` = tagger + parser + lemmatizer, `core` = the same plus NER. Held-out test splits, from `spacy benchmark accuracy`, stored in `metrics/`. Both packages share
Both packages here are built entirely from UD_Persian-PerDT and differ only in whether NER is the same trained syntax components, so those scores are identical; they differ only in whether
included. NER is included.
| Package | Components | Licence | Score | Wheel | | Package | Components | Licence | Score | Wheel |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `fa_dep_news_sm` | tok2vec, tagger, morphologizer, trainable_lemmatizer, parser | CC BY-SA 4.0 | LAS 85.15, LEMMA 97.91 | 7.5 MB | | `fa_dep_news_sm` | tok2vec, tagger, morphologizer, trainable_lemmatizer, parser | CC BY-SA 4.0 | LAS 85.15, LEMMA 97.91 | 7.5 MB |
| `fa_core_news_sm` | the above plus ner | CC BY-SA 4.0 | LAS 85.15, ENTS_F 71.87 | 13 MB | | `fa_core_news_sm` | the above plus ner | CC BY-SA 4.0 | LAS 85.15, ENTS_F 71.87 | 13 MB |
The NER is possible because the treebank ships its own entity layer in
`not-to-release/Dadegan with NER tag/`: 15,833 entities over the same 29,107 sentences, under
the same CC BY-SA 4.0. That is what makes `core` honest here, since one corpus means one genre,
one tokenization, one licence and one provenance chain. The alternative NER corpora are all
worse on at least one of those axes: ARMAN, PEYMA and NSURL are research-use-only, and
ParsTwiNER (MIT) is a Twitter corpus that costs about 23 F on prose.
Two caveats to know before relying on the entities:
- **The labels are silver.** The treebank README states they came from the BERT-based
Beheshti-NER tagger with manual corrections for recall, so `ENTS_F 71.87` is measured against
a silver test split and partly reflects agreement with that tagger.
- **Three labels are thin.** `MON` (205 training examples), `TIM` (135) and `PCT` (121) score
73.7, 66.7 and 57.1. `PER`, `LOC`, `ORG` and `DAT` have 1,300 or more each.
Entity spans were transferred onto this pipeline's tokenization by difflib alignment at a 99.86%
rate; spans that could not be aligned exactly were dropped rather than guessed
(`scripts/transfer_perdt_ner.py`).
Language data comes from `spacy/lang/fa` upstream, whose stop word list came from hazm.
Everything trains on 4 CPU cores with no GPU.
## Results
Held-out test splits, from `spacy benchmark accuracy`, stored in `metrics/`. Trained on a
4-core i5-7200U: 1h27m for the UD components, 17 min for NER.
Syntax and morphology, identical in both packages since they share the same trained components:
| Metric | Score | Reference | | Metric | Score | Reference |
| --- | --- | --- | | --- | --- | --- |
| `TOKEN_ACC` / `TOKEN_F` | 99.96 / 99.11 | | | `TOKEN_ACC` / `TOKEN_F` | 99.96 / 99.11 | |
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| Speed | ~9,250 words/s | | | Speed | ~9,250 words/s | |
Entities, `fa_core_news_sm` only, on the PerDT NER test split: `ENTS_P` 77.67, `ENTS_R` 66.87, Entities, `fa_core_news_sm` only, on the PerDT NER test split: `ENTS_P` 77.67, `ENTS_R` 66.87,
`ENTS_F` 71.87. Per label: `ENTS_F` 71.87.
| Label | F | Train examples | | Label | F | Train examples |
| --- | --- | --- | | --- | --- | --- |
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| `PCT` | 57.14 | 121 | | `PCT` | 57.14 | 121 |
Parsing is 4.2 LAS behind hazm's parser, which uses the same corpus and the same spaCy parser Parsing is 4.2 LAS behind hazm's parser, which uses the same corpus and the same spaCy parser
architecture with a fine-tuned ParsBERT instead of hash embeddings. That gap is the target for architecture with a fine-tuned ParsBERT instead of hash embeddings.
a future `trf` tier.
`PER` scoring below `LOC` and `ORG` despite having 4,847 examples is the silver labels showing `PER` scoring below `LOC` and `ORG` despite having 4,847 examples is the silver labels showing
through: PerDT includes titles and honorifics inside `PER` spans inconsistently (6.24% of spans through: PerDT includes titles and honorifics inside `PER` spans inconsistently (6.24% of spans
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has to learn are less regular than the label count suggests. has to learn are less regular than the label count suggests.
For comparison, `en_core_web_sm` scores TAG 97, LAS 90, ENTS_F 84 on a larger, cleaner corpus. For comparison, `en_core_web_sm` scores TAG 97, LAS 90, ENTS_F 84 on a larger, cleaner corpus.
Trained on a 4-core i5-7200U with no GPU: 1h27m for the syntax components, 17 min for NER.
Reproduce with `.venv/bin/python -m spacy project run all`, plus `run ent` for an NER-only
package.
## Install ## Install
```bash ```bash
.venv/bin/python -m pip install packages/fa_core_news_sm-3.8.0/dist/fa_core_news_sm-3.8.0-py3-none-any.whl pip install https://huggingface.co/Phazel/fa_core_news_sm/resolve/main/fa_core_news_sm-any-py3-none-any.whl
# or, without NER: # or, without NER:
.venv/bin/python -m pip install packages/fa_dep_news_sm-3.8.0/dist/fa_dep_news_sm-3.8.0-py3-none-any.whl pip install https://huggingface.co/Phazel/fa_dep_news_sm/resolve/main/fa_dep_news_sm-any-py3-none-any.whl
``` ```
```python ```python
import spacy import spacy
nlp = spacy.load("fa_core_news_sm") nlp = spacy.load("fa_core_news_sm")
doc = nlp("محمدرضا شجریان در مشهد به دنیا آمد.") doc = nlp("محمدرضا شجریان در مشهد به دنیا آمد.")
print([(t.text, t.pos_, t.lemma_, t.dep_) for t in doc][:3]) print([(t.text, t.pos_, t.lemma_, t.dep_) for t in doc][:3])
# [('محمدرضا', 'PROPN', 'محمدرضا', 'nsubj'), ('شجریان', 'PROPN', 'شجریان', 'flat:name'), ...] # [('محمدرضا', 'PROPN', 'محمدرضا', 'nsubj'), ('شجریان', 'PROPN', 'شجریان', 'flat:name'), ...]
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print([(e.text, e.label_) for e in doc.ents]) # ۲۰ درصد -> PCT print([(e.text, e.label_) for e in doc.ents]) # ۲۰ درصد -> PCT
``` ```
## Why not hazm's own models Entity labels: `PER`, `LOC`, `ORG`, `DAT`, `MON`, `TIM`, `PCT`.
hazm is the reference Persian NLP toolkit and publishes spaCy-format pipelines on the HF Hub, ## Caveats
so it was the obvious starting point. Four problems:
- Its trainable models are pycrfsuite CRFs (`hazm/sequence_tagger.py`). The repo contains no - **The entity labels are silver.** They come from the treebank's own
`config.cfg` and no `spacy train`; the `Spacy*` classes only download pretrained pipelines. `not-to-release/Dadegan with NER tag/` layer, which its README states was produced by the
- Those pipelines are three single-task models (`transformer + tagger`, `transformer + parser`, BERT-based Beheshti-NER tagger with manual corrections for recall. `ENTS_F 71.87` is measured
`transformer + chunker`), each `version: 0.0.0` with an empty `license` field, pinned to against a silver test split and partly reflects agreement with that tagger.
spaCy 3.6. Using all three costs three ParsBERT forward passes and gives no shared `Doc`. - **Three entity labels are thin.** `MON` (205 training examples), `TIM` (135) and `PCT` (121)
- Its tokenizer is incompatible with UD tokenization: the normaliser fuses ZWNJ affixes and rest on 4 to 11 test entities each. `PER`, `LOC`, `ORG` and `DAT` have 1,300 or more.
`join_verb_parts()` glues multi-word verb chains into single tokens. - **Some lemmas contain a space.** Multiword tokens were merged, so `کتاب‌هایش` is one token
- Most corpora it reads (Bijankhan, Peykare, Hamshahri, raw PerDT) sit behind `peykaregan.ir` tagged `N_IANM_PR_JOPER` with lemma `کتاب او`. This affects about 1.5% of tokens.
or `dadegan.ir` under research-only terms. - **`doc.noun_chunks` under-fires.** `spacy/lang/fa/syntax_iterators.py` upstream matches
ClearNLP labels that do not exist in Universal Dependencies. Patch in
It did confirm the corpus choice. hazm's own spaCy parser was trained on [`docs/upstream/fa-noun-chunks.md`](docs/upstream/fa-noun-chunks.md).
`modified_fa_perdt-ud-train.spacy`, the same treebank used here. Full analysis in
[`docs/MODELS.md`](docs/MODELS.md) §4.
## Licensing drove most decisions here
spaCy's maintainers say the Persian models trained in 2018 were never published because of
corpus licensing (spaCy discussion #8233, after PR #2797 added `fa` tokenizer support). ARMAN,
PEYMA and NSURL are all research-use-only, and wrapping them in an Apache-2.0 toolkit does not
change that.
The way out was finding that PerDT ships its own NER layer under the treebank's CC BY-SA 4.0,
so the entire pipeline now derives from one corpus with one licence. The 2018 attempt also
failed for a second reason worth knowing if you plan to publish: honnibal asked for scripts
that could regenerate the model and got a notebook instead. `project.yml` is that script.
## Setup
```bash
# Python 3.12
python -m venv .venv
.venv/bin/python -m pip install -U pip
.venv/bin/python -m pip install "spacy>=3.8,<3.9" spacy-lookups-data
```
## Build ## Build
[`project.yml`](project.yml) has two workflows: Everything is reproducible from checksummed assets. Python 3.12:
```bash ```bash
python -m venv .venv
.venv/bin/python -m pip install -U pip
.venv/bin/python -m pip install "spacy>=3.8,<3.9" spacy-lookups-data
.venv/bin/python -m spacy project assets # download + checksum the corpora .venv/bin/python -m spacy project assets # download + checksum the corpora
.venv/bin/python -m spacy project run all # -> fa_dep_news_sm + fa_core_news_sm .venv/bin/python -m spacy project run all # -> fa_dep_news_sm + fa_core_news_sm
.venv/bin/python -m spacy project run ent # -> fa_ent_news_sm, NER alone .venv/bin/python -m spacy project run ent # -> fa_ent_news_sm, NER alone
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The two training runs are single-threaded and independent, so they can run concurrently. The two training runs are single-threaded and independent, so they can run concurrently.
`finalize` runs twice because of an ordering constraint: test scores only exist after
evaluation, and evaluation needs a finalized pipeline to score. The second pass only copies
models. `scripts/finalize_pipeline.py` enforces the shape of each variant, refusing to publish
a `dep` pipeline that contains `ner` or a `core` one that does not, so the split cannot regress
unnoticed.
`--ud-metrics` and `--ner-metrics` are separate flags on purpose. Folding both reports over one
key set silently corrupted `core`'s metadata during development: the NER corpus has no gold
tags, so its report carries `tag_acc: 0.0`, which overwrote the real 95.96.
## Design decisions ## Design decisions
1. `--merge-subtokens`. spaCy has no multiword-token layer, and PerDT splits pronominal clitics 1. `--merge-subtokens`. spaCy has no multiword-token layer, and PerDT splits pronominal clitics
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English pipelines derive UPOS from PTB tags by rule because OntoNotes has no UPOS. UD gives English pipelines derive UPOS from PTB tags by rule because OntoNotes has no UPOS. UD gives
gold UPOS, FEATS and lemmas, which yields real `pos_acc`, `morph_acc` and `lemma_acc` numbers gold UPOS, FEATS and lemmas, which yields real `pos_acc`, `morph_acc` and `lemma_acc` numbers
instead of unmeasurable rule coverage. instead of unmeasurable rule coverage.
4. PerDT, not Seraji: 3.7x more tokens, and Seraji has no `PROPN` tag. 4. PerDT, not Seraji: 3.7x more tokens, and Seraji has no `PROPN` tag. Entity spans were
transferred onto this pipeline's tokenization by difflib at a 99.86% rate, and spans that
could not be aligned exactly were dropped rather than guessed
(`scripts/transfer_perdt_ner.py`).
## Roadmap ## Why not hazm's own models
1. A human-annotated NER test set, ~500 sentences. PerDT's entity labels and its NER test split hazm is the reference Persian NLP toolkit and publishes spaCy-format pipelines on the HF Hub,
are both silver, so `ENTS_F 71.87` is not yet a fact. Tracked in so it was the obvious starting point. Four problems:
[`../ner_dataset`](../ner_dataset/PLAN.md).
2. A mixed-genre variant. Measured: this prose-trained NER scores 45.72 F on tweets, and mixing - Its trainable models are pycrfsuite CRFs (`hazm/sequence_tagger.py`). The repo contains no
ParsTwiNER in recovers that to 66.49 for 0.69 F on prose. That belongs in a separate package `config.cfg` and no `spacy train`; the `Spacy*` classes only download pretrained pipelines.
rather than inside a `news` one. - Those pipelines are three single-task models (`transformer + tagger`, `transformer + parser`,
3. `md` and `lg` need floret vectors trained on Persian Wikipedia and OSCAR (see `transformer + chunker`), each `version: 0.0.0` with an empty `license` field, pinned to
`spacy-vectors-builder`). Floret rather than classic fastText, because inconsistent ZWNJ spaCy 3.6. Using all three costs three ParsBERT forward passes and gives no shared `Doc`.
usage explodes the surface vocabulary. - Its tokenizer is incompatible with UD tokenization: the normaliser fuses ZWNJ affixes and
4. `trf` needs a rented GPU and should use `HooshvareLab/roberta-fa-zwnj-base` (Apache-2.0) `join_verb_parts()` glues multi-word verb chains into single tokens.
rather than ParsBERT, whose model card carries no licence. - Most corpora it reads (Bijankhan, Peykare, Hamshahri, raw PerDT) sit behind `peykaregan.ir`
5. `senter` is one extra training run. or `dadegan.ir` under research-only terms.
6. Upstream PRs to `spacy/lang/fa`, see [`docs/upstream/fa-noun-chunks.md`](docs/upstream/fa-noun-chunks.md).
It did confirm the corpus choice. hazm's own spaCy parser was trained on
`modified_fa_perdt-ud-train.spacy`, the same treebank used here.
## More
- Pipeline inventory, corpus and licence analysis: [`docs/MODELS.md`](docs/MODELS.md)
- How spaCy models get published, and what upstream `fa` already has:
[`docs/CONTRIBUTING-GUIDE.md`](docs/CONTRIBUTING-GUIDE.md)
- The build: [`project.yml`](project.yml)
- Language data comes from `spacy/lang/fa` upstream, whose stop word list came from hazm.