pat-tree

pat-tree

PAT tree construction for Chinese document, now in development.

WARNING: This project is now in development and used for academic purpose, DO NOT use this module until the WARNING statement is removed.

Installation

npm install pat-tree --save

Test

npm test

Usage

Init

var PATtree = require("pat-tree");
var tree = new PATtree();

Add document

tree.addDocument(input);

Print tree content

tree.printTreeContent(printExternalNodes, printDocuments);

If printExternalNodes is set to true, print out all external nodes for each internal node. If printDocuments is set to true, print out the whole collection of the tree.

Extract Significant Lexical Patterns

var SLPs = tree.extractSLP(TFThreshold, SEThreshold); // SLPs: array of signifiant lexical patterns.

If the frequency of a pattern exceeds THThreshold, and the SE value exceeds SEThreshold, it would appear in the result array.

THTreshold shold be integer, SEThreshold shold be between 0 and 1.

Traversal

tree.traverse(preCallback, inCallback, postCallback);

For convenient, there are functions for each order of traversal

tree.preOrderTraverse(callback);
tree.inOrderTraverse(callback);
tree.postOrderTraverse(callback);

For example

tree.preOrderTraverse(function(node) {
	console.log("node id: " + node.id);
})

Data type

Node

Every nodes has some common informaitons, an node has the following structure:

node = {
	id: 3, // the id of this node, data type: JSON, auto generated.
	parent: 1, // the parent id of this node, data type: integer
	left: leftChildNode, // data type: Node 
	right: rightChildNode, // data type: Node
	data: {} // payload for this node, data type : JSON
}

Data is different for internal nodes and external nodes, Internal nodes has following structure:

Internal nodes

internalNode.data = {
	type: "internal",  // indicates this is an internal node
	position: 13, // the branch position of external nodes, data type: integer
	prefix: "00101", // the sharing prefix of external nodes, data type: string of 0s and 1s
	externalNodeNum: 87, // number of external nodes contained in subtree of this node, data type: integer
	totalFrequency: 89, // number of the total frequency of the external nodes in the collection, data type: integer
	sistrings: ArrayOfExternalNodes // array of external nodes, data type: array
}

External nodes

External nodes has following structure:

externalNode.data = {
	type: "external", // indicates this is an external node,
	sistring: "00101100110101", // binary representation of the character, data type: string
	indexes: ["0.1,3", "1.2.5"] // the positions where the sistring appears in the collection, data type: array
}

Collection

The whole collection consists of documents, which consists of sentenses, which consists of words. An example could be this:

[ [ '嗨你好',
	'這是測試文件1' ],
  [ '你好',
	'這是測試文件2' ] ]

An index is in following structure:

DocumentPosition.SentensePosition.wordPosition

For example, "0.1.2" is the index of the character "測".

Release History

• 0.1.1 First release
• 0.1.2 Construction complete
• 0.1.3 Able to restore Chinese characters
• 0.1.4 Add external node number and term frequency to internal nodes
• 0.1.5 Add functionality of SLP extraction