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[experimental] Natural Language Processing functions

Natural Language Processing (NLP) Functions

Danger

This is an experimental feature that is currently in development and is not ready for general use. It will change in unpredictable backwards-incompatible ways in future releases. Set allow_experimental_nlp_functions = 1 to enable it.

detectCharset​

The detectCharset function detects the character set of the non-UTF8-encoded input string.

Syntax

detectCharset('text_to_be_analyzed')

Arguments

  • text_to_be_analyzed — A collection (or sentences) of strings to analyze. String.

Returned value

  • A String containing the code of the detected character set

Examples

Query:

SELECT detectCharset('Ich bleibe für ein paar Tage.');

Result:

┌─detectCharset('Ich bleibe für ein paar Tage.')─┐
│ WINDOWS-1252                                   │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

detectLanguage​

Detects the language of the UTF8-encoded input string. The function uses the CLD2 library for detection, and it returns the 2-letter ISO language code.

The detectLanguage function works best when providing over 200 characters in the input string.

Syntax

detectLanguage('text_to_be_analyzed')

Arguments

  • text_to_be_analyzed — A collection (or sentences) of strings to analyze. String.

Returned value

  • The 2-letter ISO code of the detected language

Other possible results:

  • un = unknown, can not detect any language.
  • other = the detected language does not have 2 letter code.

Examples

Query:

SELECT detectLanguage('Je pense que je ne parviendrai jamais à parler français comme un natif. Where there’s a will, there’s a way.');

Result:

fr

detectLanguageMixed​

Similar to the detectLanguage function, but detectLanguageMixed returns a Map of 2-letter language codes that are mapped to the percentage of the certain language in the text.

Syntax

detectLanguageMixed('text_to_be_analyzed')

Arguments

  • text_to_be_analyzed — A collection (or sentences) of strings to analyze. String.

Returned value

  • Map(String, Float32): The keys are 2-letter ISO codes and the values are a percentage of text found for that language

Examples

Query:

SELECT detectLanguageMixed('二兎を追う者は一兎をも得ず二兎を追う者は一兎をも得ず A vaincre sans peril, on triomphe sans gloire.');

Result:

┌─detectLanguageMixed()─┐
│ {'ja':0.62,'fr':0.36  │
└───────────────────────┘

detectProgrammingLanguage​

Determines the programming language from the source code. Calculates all the unigrams and bigrams of commands in the source code. Then using a marked-up dictionary with weights of unigrams and bigrams of commands for various programming languages finds the biggest weight of the programming language and returns it.

Syntax

detectProgrammingLanguage('source_code')

Arguments

  • source_code — String representation of the source code to analyze. String.

Returned value

Examples

Query:

SELECT detectProgrammingLanguage('#include <iostream>');

Result:

┌─detectProgrammingLanguage('#include <iostream>')─┐
│ C++                                              │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

detectLanguageUnknown​

Similar to the detectLanguage function, except the detectLanguageUnknown function works with non-UTF8-encoded strings. Prefer this version when your character set is UTF-16 or UTF-32.

Syntax

detectLanguageUnknown('text_to_be_analyzed')

Arguments

  • text_to_be_analyzed — A collection (or sentences) of strings to analyze. String.

Returned value

  • The 2-letter ISO code of the detected language

Other possible results:

  • un = unknown, can not detect any language.
  • other = the detected language does not have 2 letter code.

Examples

Query:

SELECT detectLanguageUnknown('Ich bleibe für ein paar Tage.');

Result:

┌─detectLanguageUnknown('Ich bleibe für ein paar Tage.')─┐
│ de                                                     │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

detectTonality​

Determines the sentiment of text data. Uses a marked-up sentiment dictionary, in which each word has a tonality ranging from -12 to 6. For each text, it calculates the average sentiment value of its words and returns it in the range [-1,1].

Note

This function is limited in its current form. Currently it makes use of the embedded emotional dictionary at /contrib/nlp-data/tonality_ru.zst and only works for the Russian language.

Syntax

detectTonality(text)

Arguments

  • text — The text to be analyzed. String.

Returned value

  • The average sentiment value of the words in text. Float32.

Examples

Query:

SELECT detectTonality('Шарик - хороший пёс'), -- Sharik is a good dog 
       detectTonality('Шарик - пёс'), -- Sharik is a dog
       detectTonality('Шарик - плохой пёс'); -- Sharkik is a bad dog

Result:

┌─detectTonality('Шарик - хороший пёс')─┬─detectTonality('Шарик - пёс')─┬─detectTonality('Шарик - плохой пёс')─┐
│                               0.44445 │                             0 │                                 -0.3 │
└───────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────┘

lemmatize​

Performs lemmatization on a given word. Needs dictionaries to operate, which can be obtained here.

Syntax

lemmatize('language', word)

Arguments

  • language — Language which rules will be applied. String.
  • word — Word that needs to be lemmatized. Must be lowercase. String.

Examples

Query:

SELECT lemmatize('en', 'wolves');

Result:

┌─lemmatize("wolves")─┐
│              "wolf" │
└─────────────────────┘

Configuration

This configuration specifies that the dictionary en.bin should be used for lemmatization of English (en) words. The .bin files can be downloaded from here.

<lemmatizers>
    <lemmatizer>
        <lang>en</lang>
        <path>en.bin</path>
    </lemmatizer>
</lemmatizers>

stem​

Performs stemming on a given word.

Syntax

stem('language', word)

Arguments

  • language — Language which rules will be applied. Use the two letter ISO 639-1 code.
  • word — word that needs to be stemmed. Must be in lowercase. String.

Examples

Query:

SELECT arrayMap(x -> stem('en', x), ['I', 'think', 'it', 'is', 'a', 'blessing', 'in', 'disguise']) as res;

Result:

┌─res────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ['I','think','it','is','a','bless','in','disguis'] │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Supported languages for stem()

Note

The stem() function uses the Snowball stemming library, see the Snowball website for updated languages etc.

  • Arabic
  • Armenian
  • Basque
  • Catalan
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English
  • Finnish
  • French
  • German
  • Greek
  • Hindi
  • Hungarian
  • Indonesian
  • Irish
  • Italian
  • Lithuanian
  • Nepali
  • Norwegian
  • Porter
  • Portuguese
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Serbian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
  • Tamil
  • Turkish
  • Yiddish

synonyms​

Finds synonyms to a given word. There are two types of synonym extensions: plain and wordnet.

With the plain extension type we need to provide a path to a simple text file, where each line corresponds to a certain synonym set. Words in this line must be separated with space or tab characters.

With the wordnet extension type we need to provide a path to a directory with WordNet thesaurus in it. Thesaurus must contain a WordNet sense index.

Syntax

synonyms('extension_name', word)

Arguments

  • extension_name — Name of the extension in which search will be performed. String.
  • word — Word that will be searched in extension. String.

Examples

Query:

SELECT synonyms('list', 'important');

Result:

┌─synonyms('list', 'important')────────────┐
│ ['important','big','critical','crucial'] │
└──────────────────────────────────────────┘

Configuration

<synonyms_extensions>
    <extension>
        <name>en</name>
        <type>plain</type>
        <path>en.txt</path>
    </extension>
    <extension>
        <name>en</name>
        <type>wordnet</type>
        <path>en/</path>
    </extension>
</synonyms_extensions>