CLDec 9, 2023

Augmenty: A Python Library for Structured Text Augmentation

arXiv:2312.05520v1h-index: 5Journal of Open Source Software
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This library addresses the need for structured text augmentation in NLP tasks, but it is incremental as it builds on existing tools like spaCy.

The authors introduced Augmenty, a Python library built on spaCy for structured text augmentation, enabling flexible combination of augmenters to create complex pipelines for applications like named entity recognition, part-of-speech tagging, and dependency parsing.

Augmnety is a Python library for structured text augmentation. It is built on top of spaCy and allows for augmentation of both the text and its annotations. Augmenty provides a wide range of augmenters which can be combined in a flexible manner to create complex augmentation pipelines. It also includes a set of primitives that can be used to create custom augmenters such as word replacement augmenters. This functionality allows for augmentations within a range of applications such as named entity recognition (NER), part-of-speech tagging, and dependency parsing.

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