Regex entity names

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Hello guys,

I’m working on capturing the ‘names’ of the persons. I wrote almost 50+ different ways/names in nlu.md file for training, wrote a regex as well but still if I give a new name the nlu engine is not able to recognise it. This is how my nlu.md file looks -

regex:name

  • ^[A-Za-z ]+$

intent:get_name

I’m using rasa 1.0.7 and I have pipeline: ‘pretrained_embeddings_spacy’

Could someone please guide me as to what must I do to fix this.

Thanks in advance

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Not sure, but have you tried not using Regex? It might be featurizing other words that are not names.
Also, I think that the regex is wrong here. It matches all the characters, followed by a space, at the end of the sentence. Without $, it matches the entire sentence. With $, it matches nothing unless you have a space at the end of input.

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Thanks for your reply Akshay2000

I started without regex but to no avail. As you mentioned, I will fix the regex now and test it.

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Nope, still doesn’t work. The moment I provide a new name, the entity (name) doesn’t get fill. :frowning:

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As @akshay2000 mentioned, regex is not a good idea for names. Have you tried using custom crf and spacy’s built in recognizer?

Also, you could look at lookup tables, they work the best for names.

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hey @rmiiitb as suggested by @srikar_1996 you can use CRF entity extractor since you are using custom entities, you can read about it here:

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Thanks srikar, JG ! Really appreciate the pointers, will work on them.

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Hey guys, I did this -

regex:name

  • ^[a-zA-Z]+(([’,. -][a-zA-Z ])?[a-zA-Z]*)$

pipeline:

  • name: “SpacyNLP”
  • name: “SpacyTokenizer”
  • name: “SpacyFeaturizer”
  • name: “SklearnIntentClassifier”
  • name: “EntitySynonymMapper”
  • name: “RegexFeaturizer”
  • name: “CRFEntityExtractor” features: [ [“low”, “title”, “upper”], [“bias”, “low”, “prefix5”, “prefix2”, “suffix5”, “suffix3”, “suffix2”, “upper”, “title”, “digit”, “pattern”], [“low”, “title”, “upper”] ]

While running, I gave name as : sasha petrov and got below debug statements - 2019-06-20 10:34:25 DEBUG rasa_sdk.forms - Validating user input ‘{‘intent’: {‘name’: ‘get_name’, ‘confidence’: 0.9944517383711481}, ‘entities’: [], ‘intent_ranking’: [ {‘name’: ‘get_name’, ‘confidence’: 0.9944517383711481}, {‘name’: ‘affirm’, ‘confidence’: 0.0008237922520789642}, . . {‘name’: ‘finance_module’, ‘confidence’: 0.00017543870013493048}], ‘text’: ‘sasha petrov’}’

2019-06-20 10:34:25 DEBUG rasa_sdk.forms - Trying to extract requested slot ‘name’ … 2019-06-20 10:34:25 DEBUG rasa_sdk.forms - Got mapping ‘{‘type’: ‘from_entity’, ‘entity’: ‘name’, ‘intent’: [‘get_name’], ‘not_intent’: []}’ 2019-06-20 10:34:25 DEBUG rasa_sdk.forms - Failed to extract requested slot ‘name’ 2019-06-20 10:34:25 ERROR rasa_sdk.endpoint - Failed to extract slot name with action initial_info_form

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I will now try without regex.

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@rmiiitb did you get anywhere with this? I’m having a similar problem perhaps the regex recognizer needs to be configured?

It seems you would need to add it to your pipeline config.yml

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Hi Rahul,

If you want to extract the name of person then you simply use spacy entity extractor. For that you need to install spacy.

add following in your config file

  • name: “SpacyNLP”
  • name: “SpacyEntityExtractor” dimensions: [“PERSON”,“LOC”,“ORG”,“PRODUCT”]

while slot mapping use entity as a person self.from_entity(entity=“PERSON”),

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