Natural Language Processing with Python Quick Start Guide

Creating a ruleset

Quite often when using linguistics, you will be writing custom rules. Here is one data structure suggestion to help you store these rules: a list of dictionaries. Each dictionary in turn can have elements ranging from simple string lists to lists of strings. Avoid nesting a list of dictionaries inside a dictionary:

ruleset = [    {        'id': 1,         'req_tags': ['NNP', 'VBZ', 'NN'],    },     {        'id': 2,         'req_tags': ['NNP', 'VBZ'],    }    ]

Here, I have written two rules. Each rule is simply a collection of part-of-speech tags that has been stored under the req_tags key. Each rule is comprised of all of the tags that I will look for in a particular sentence.

Depending on id, I will use a hardcoded question template to generate my questions. ...