Kevin Glover wrote:
> I am working on a program that is written in Python 2.7 to be compatible
> with the POS tagger that I import from Pattern. The tagger identifies all
> the nouns in a text. I need to exclude from the tagger any text that is
> within quotation marks, and also any word that begins with an upper case
> letter (including words at the beginning of sentences).
>
> Any advice on coding that would be gratefully received. Thanks.
How about removing them afterwards?
>>> def skip_quoted(pairs):
... quoted = False
... for a, b in pairs:
... if a == '"':
... quoted = not quoted
... elif not quoted:
... yield a, b
...
>>> from pattern.en import tag
>>> [p for p in skip_quoted(tag('Did you say "Hello world"?')) if not p[0]
[0].isupper()]
[(u'you', u'PRP'), (u'say', u'VB'), (u'?', u'.')]
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