Sofia (indra.sources.sofia)

Sofia is a general purpose natural language processing system developed at UPitt and CMU by N. Miskov et al.

Sofia API (indra.sources.sofia.api)

indra.sources.sofia.api.process_json(json_obj)[source]

Return processor by processing a JSON object returned by Sofia.

Parameters:json_obj (json) – A JSON object containing extractions from Sofia.
Returns:sp – A SofiaProcessor object which has a list of extracted INDRA Statements as its statements attribute.
Return type:indra.sources.sofia.processor.SofiaProcessor
indra.sources.sofia.api.process_json_file(fname)[source]

Return processor by processing a JSON file produced by Sofia.

Parameters:fname (str) – The name of the JSON file to process
Returns:A SofiaProcessor object which has a list of extracted INDRA Statements as its statements attribute.
Return type:indra.sources.sofia.processor.SofiaProcessor
indra.sources.sofia.api.process_table(fname)[source]

Return processor by processing a given sheet of a spreadsheet file.

Parameters:fname (str) – The name of the Excel file (typically .xlsx extension) to process
Returns:sp – A SofiaProcessor object which has a list of extracted INDRA Statements as its statements attribute.
Return type:indra.sources.sofia.processor.SofiaProcessor
indra.sources.sofia.api.process_text(text, out_file='sofia_output.json', auth=None)[source]

Return processor by processing text given as a string.

Parameters:
  • text (str) – A string containing the text to be processed with Sofia.
  • out_file (Optional[str]) – The path to a file to save the reader’s output into. Default: sofia_output.json
  • auth (Optional[list]) – A username/password pair for the Sofia web service. If not given, the SOFIA_USERNAME and SOFIA_PASSWORD values are loaded from either the INDRA config or the environment.
Returns:

sp – A SofiaProcessor object which has a list of extracted INDRA Statements as its statements attribute. If the API did not process the text, None is returned.
Return type:

indra.sources.sofia.processor.SofiaProcessor