masked_targets_pred: Get the predictability of a target word (or phrase) given a...

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Get the predictability of a target word (or phrase) given a left and right context

Description

Get the predictability (by default the natural logarithm of the word probability) of a vector of target words (or phrase) given a vector of left and of right contexts using a masked transformer.

Usage

masked_targets_pred(
  prev_contexts,
  targets,
  after_contexts,
  log.p = getOption("pangoling.log.p"),
  ignore_regex = "",
  model = getOption("pangoling.masked.default"),
  checkpoint = NULL,
  add_special_tokens = NULL,
  config_model = NULL,
  config_tokenizer = NULL
)

Arguments

prev_contexts	Left context of the target word in left-to-right written languages.
targets	Target words.
after_contexts	Right context of the target in left-to-right written languages.
log.p	Base of the logarithm used for the output predictability values. If TRUE (default), the natural logarithm (base e) is used. If FALSE, the raw probabilities are returned. Alternatively, log.p can be set to a numeric value specifying the base of the logarithm (e.g., 2 for base-2 logarithms). To get surprisal in bits (rather than predictability), set log.p = 1/2.
ignore_regex	Can ignore certain characters when calculating the log probabilities. For example ⁠^[[:punct:]]$⁠ will ignore all punctuation that stands alone in a token.
model	Name of a pre-trained model or folder. One should be able to use models based on "bert". See hugging face website.
checkpoint	Folder of a checkpoint.
add_special_tokens	Whether to include special tokens. It has the same default as the AutoTokenizer method in Python.
config_model	List with other arguments that control how the model from Hugging Face is accessed.
config_tokenizer	List with other arguments that control how the tokenizer from Hugging Face is accessed.

Details

A masked language model (also called BERT-like, or encoder model) is a type of large language model that can be used to predict the content of a mask in a sentence.

If not specified, the masked model that will be used is the one set in specified in the global option pangoling.masked.default, this can be accessed via getOption("pangoling.masked.default") (by default "bert-base-uncased"). To change the default option use options(pangoling.masked.default = "newmaskedmodel").

A list of possible masked can be found in Hugging Face website

Using the config_model and config_tokenizer arguments, it's possible to control how the model and tokenizer from Hugging Face is accessed, see the python method from_pretrained for details. In case of errors check the status of https://status.huggingface.co/

Value

A named vector of predictability values (by default the natural logarithm of the word probability).

More examples

See the online article in pangoling website for more examples.

See Also

Other masked model functions: masked_tokens_pred_tbl()

Examples

masked_targets_pred(
  prev_contexts = c("The", "The"),
  targets = c("apple", "pear"),
  after_contexts = c(
    "doesn't fall far from the tree.",
    "doesn't fall far from the tree."
  ),
  model = "bert-base-uncased"
)

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