medcat.components.linking.vector_context_model

Classes:

• ContextModel –

  Used to learn embeddings for concepts and calculate similarities

• DisambPreprocessor –
• PerDocumentTokenCache –

Functions:

• get_lr_linking –
• get_similarity –
• get_updated_average_confidence –
• update_context_vectors –

Attributes:

• logger –

logger module-attribute

logger = getLogger(__name__)

ContextModel

ContextModel(cui2info: dict[str, CUIInfo], name2info: dict[str, NameInfo], weighted_average_function: Callable[[int], float], vocab: Vocab, config: Linking, name_separator: str, disamb_preprocessors: list[DisambPreprocessor] = [])

Bases: AbstractSerialisable

Used to learn embeddings for concepts and calculate similarities in new documents.

Parameters:

• cui2info

  (dict[str, CUIInfo]) –

  The CUI to info mapping.

• name2info

  (dict[str, NameInfo]) –

  The name to info mapping.

• weighted_average_function

  (Callable[[int], float]) –

  The weighted average function.

• vocab

  (Vocab) –

  The vocabulary

• config

  (Linking) –

  The config to be used

• name_separator

  (str) –

  The name separator

Methods:

• disambiguate –
• get_all_similarities –
• get_context_tokens –

  Get context tokens for an entity, this will skip anything that

• get_context_vectors –

  Given an entity and the document it will return the context

• similarity –

  Calculate the similarity between the learnt context for this CUI

• train –

  Update the context representation for this CUI, given it's correct

• train_using_negative_sampling –

Attributes:

• config –
• cui2info –
• name2info –
• name_separator –
• vocab –
• weighted_average_function –

Source code in medcat-v2/medcat/components/linking/vector_context_model.py

def __init__(self, cui2info: dict[str, CUIInfo],
             name2info: dict[str, NameInfo],
             weighted_average_function: Callable[[int], float],
             vocab: Vocab, config: Linking,
             name_separator: str,
             disamb_preprocessors: list[DisambPreprocessor] = []) -> None:
    self.cui2info = cui2info
    self.name2info = name2info
    self.weighted_average_function = weighted_average_function
    self.vocab = vocab
    self.config = config
    self.name_separator = name_separator
    self._disamb_preprocessors = (  # copy if default/empty
        disamb_preprocessors or disamb_preprocessors.copy())

config instance-attribute

config = config

cui2info instance-attribute

cui2info = cui2info

name2info instance-attribute

name2info = name2info

name_separator instance-attribute

name_separator = name_separator

vocab instance-attribute

vocab = vocab

weighted_average_function instance-attribute

weighted_average_function = weighted_average_function

disambiguate

disambiguate(cuis: list[str], entity: MutableEntity, name: str, doc: MutableDocument, per_doc_valid_token_cache: PerDocumentTokenCache) -> tuple[Optional[str], float]

Source code in medcat-v2/medcat/components/linking/vector_context_model.py

def disambiguate(self, cuis: list[str], entity: MutableEntity, name: str,
                 doc: MutableDocument,
                 per_doc_valid_token_cache: 'PerDocumentTokenCache'
                 ) -> tuple[Optional[str], float]:
    suitable_cuis, sims, best_index = self.get_all_similarities(
        cuis, entity, name, doc, per_doc_valid_token_cache)
    return suitable_cuis[best_index], sims[best_index]

get_all_similarities

get_all_similarities(cuis: list[str], entity: MutableEntity, name: str, doc: MutableDocument, per_doc_valid_token_cache: PerDocumentTokenCache) -> tuple[Union[list[str], list[None]], list[float], int]

Source code in medcat-v2/medcat/components/linking/vector_context_model.py

def get_all_similarities(self, cuis: list[str], entity: MutableEntity,
                         name: str, doc: MutableDocument,
                         per_doc_valid_token_cache: 'PerDocumentTokenCache'
                         ) -> tuple[Union[list[str], list[None]],
                                    list[float], int]:
    vectors = self.get_context_vectors(
        entity, doc, per_doc_valid_token_cache)
    filters = self.config.filters

    # If it is trainer we want to filter concepts before disambiguation
    # do not want to explain why, but it is needed.
    if self.config.filter_before_disamb:
        # DEBUG
        logger.debug("Is trainer, subsetting CUIs")
        logger.debug("CUIs before: %s", cuis)

        cuis = [cui for cui in cuis if filters.check_filters(cui)]
        # DEBUG
        logger.debug("CUIs after: %s", cuis)

    if cuis:    # Maybe none are left after filtering
        # Calculate similarity for each cui
        similarities = [float(self._similarity(cui, vectors))
                        for cui in cuis]
        # DEBUG
        logger.debug("Similarities: %s", list(zip(cuis, similarities)))

        self._preprocess_disamb_similarities(
            entity, name, cuis, similarities)

        # technically, could be a np.int64 or something like that
        mx = int(np.argmax(similarities))
        return cuis, similarities, mx
    else:
        return [None], [0], 0

get_context_tokens

get_context_tokens(entity: MutableEntity, doc: MutableDocument, size: int, per_doc_valid_token_cache: PerDocumentTokenCache) -> tuple[list[MutableToken], list[MutableToken], list[MutableToken]]

Get context tokens for an entity, this will skip anything that is marked as skip in token._.to_skip

Parameters:

• entity

  (BaseEntity) –

  The entity to look for.

• doc

  (BaseDocument) –

  The document look in.

• size

  (int) –

  The size of the entity.

• per_doc_valid_token_cache

  (PerDocumentTokenCache) –

  Per document cache for token validation.

Returns:

• tuple[list[MutableToken], list[MutableToken], list[MutableToken]] –

  tuple[list[BaseToken], list[BaseToken], list[BaseToken]]: The tokens on the left, centre, and right.

Source code in medcat-v2/medcat/components/linking/vector_context_model.py

def get_context_tokens(self, entity: MutableEntity, doc: MutableDocument,
                       size: int,
                       per_doc_valid_token_cache: 'PerDocumentTokenCache',
                       ) -> tuple[list[MutableToken],
                                  list[MutableToken],
                                  list[MutableToken]]:
    """Get context tokens for an entity, this will skip anything that
    is marked as skip in token._.to_skip

    Args:
        entity (BaseEntity): The entity to look for.
        doc (BaseDocument): The document look in.
        size (int): The size of the entity.
        per_doc_valid_token_cache (PerDocumentTokenCache):
            Per document cache for token validation.

    Returns:
        tuple[list[BaseToken], list[BaseToken], list[BaseToken]]:
            The tokens on the left, centre, and right.
    """
    start_ind = entity.base.start_index
    end_ind = entity.base.end_index

    _left_tokens = doc[max(0, start_ind - size):start_ind]
    tokens_left = [tkn for tkn in _left_tokens if
                   per_doc_valid_token_cache[tkn]]
    # Reverse because the first token should be the one closest to center
    tokens_left.reverse()
    tokens_center: list[MutableToken] = list(
        cast(Iterable[MutableToken], entity))
    _right_tokens = doc[end_ind + 1:end_ind + 1 + size]
    tokens_right = [tkn for tkn in _right_tokens if
                    per_doc_valid_token_cache[tkn]]

    return tokens_left, tokens_center, tokens_right

get_context_vectors

get_context_vectors(entity: MutableEntity, doc: MutableDocument, per_doc_valid_token_cache: PerDocumentTokenCache, cui: Optional[str] = None) -> dict[str, ndarray]

Given an entity and the document it will return the context representation for the given entity.

Parameters:

• entity

  (BaseEntity) –

  The entity to look for.

• doc

  (BaseDocument) –

  The document to look in.

• per_doc_valid_token_cache

  (PerDocumentTokenCache) –

  Per documnet cache for token validation

• cui

  (Optional[str], default: None ) –

  The CUI or None if not specified.

Returns:

• dict[str, ndarray] –

  dict[str, np.ndarray]: The context vector.

Source code in medcat-v2/medcat/components/linking/vector_context_model.py

def get_context_vectors(self, entity: MutableEntity,
                        doc: MutableDocument,
                        per_doc_valid_token_cache: 'PerDocumentTokenCache',
                        cui: Optional[str] = None,
                        ) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
    """Given an entity and the document it will return the context
    representation for the given entity.

    Args:
        entity (BaseEntity): The entity to look for.
        doc (BaseDocument): The document to look in.
        per_doc_valid_token_cache (PerDocumentTokenCache):
            Per documnet cache for token validation
        cui (Optional[str]): The CUI or None if not specified.

    Returns:
        dict[str, np.ndarray]: The context vector.
    """
    vectors: dict[str, np.ndarray] = {}

    context_vector_sizes = self.config.context_vector_sizes
    for context_type, window_size in context_vector_sizes.items():
        tokens_left, tokens_center, tokens_right = self.get_context_tokens(
            entity, doc, window_size, per_doc_valid_token_cache)

        values: list[np.ndarray] = []
        # Add left
        values.extend(self._tokens2vecs(tokens_left))

        if not self.config.context_ignore_center_tokens:
            # Add center
            values.extend(
                self._preprocess_center_tokens(cui, tokens_center))

        # Add right
        values.extend(self._tokens2vecs(tokens_right))

        if values:
            value = np.average(values, axis=0)
            vectors[context_type] = value
    return vectors

similarity

similarity(cui: str, entity: MutableEntity, doc: MutableDocument, per_doc_valid_token_cache: PerDocumentTokenCache) -> float

Calculate the similarity between the learnt context for this CUI and the context in the given doc.

Parameters:

• cui

  (str) –

  The CUI.

• entity

  (BaseEntity) –

  The entity to look for.

• doc

  (BaseDocument) –

  The document to look in.

• per_doc_valid_token_cache

  (PerDocumentTokenCache) –

  Per document cache for valid tokens

Returns:

• float ( float ) –

  The similarity.

Source code in medcat-v2/medcat/components/linking/vector_context_model.py

def similarity(self, cui: str, entity: MutableEntity, doc: MutableDocument,
               per_doc_valid_token_cache: 'PerDocumentTokenCache'
               ) -> float:
    """Calculate the similarity between the learnt context for this CUI
    and the context in the given `doc`.

    Args:
        cui (str): The CUI.
        entity (BaseEntity): The entity to look for.
        doc (BaseDocument): The document to look in.
        per_doc_valid_token_cache (PerDocumentTokenCache):
            Per document cache for valid tokens

    Returns:
        float: The similarity.
    """
    vectors = self.get_context_vectors(
        entity, doc, per_doc_valid_token_cache)
    sim = self._similarity(cui, vectors)

    return sim

train

train(cui: str, entity: MutableEntity, doc: MutableDocument, per_doc_valid_token_cache: PerDocumentTokenCache, negative: bool = False, names: Union[list[str], dict] = []) -> None

Update the context representation for this CUI, given it's correct location (entity) in a document (doc).

Parameters:

• cui

  (str) –

  The CUI to train.

• entity

  (BaseEntity) –

  The entity we're at.

• doc

  (BaseDocument) –

  The document within which we're working.

• per_doc_valid_token_cache

  (PerDocumentTokenCache) –

  Per document cache for token validation.

• negative

  (bool, default: False ) –

  Whether or not the example is negative. Defaults to False.

• names

  (list[str] / dict, default: [] ) –

  Optionally used to update the status of a name-cui pair in the CDB.

Source code in medcat-v2/medcat/components/linking/vector_context_model.py

def train(self, cui: str, entity: MutableEntity, doc: MutableDocument,
          per_doc_valid_token_cache: 'PerDocumentTokenCache',
          negative: bool = False, names: Union[list[str], dict] = [],
          ) -> None:
    """Update the context representation for this CUI, given it's correct
    location (entity) in a document (doc).

    Args:
        cui (str): The CUI to train.
        entity (BaseEntity): The entity we're at.
        doc (BaseDocument): The document within which we're working.
        per_doc_valid_token_cache (PerDocumentTokenCache):
            Per document cache for token validation.
        negative (bool): Whether or not the example is negative.
            Defaults to False.
        names (list[str]/dict):
            Optionally used to update the `status` of a name-cui
            pair in the CDB.
    """
    # Context vectors to be calculated
    if len(entity) == 0:  # Make sure there is something
        logger.warning("The provided entity for cui <%s> was empty, "
                       "nothing to train", cui)
        return
    vectors = self.get_context_vectors(
        entity, doc, per_doc_valid_token_cache, cui=cui)
    cui_info = self.cui2info[cui]
    lr = get_lr_linking(self.config, cui_info['count_train'])
    if not cui_info['context_vectors']:
        if not negative:
            cui_info['context_vectors'] = vectors
        else:
            cui_info['context_vectors'] = {ct: -1 * vec for
                                           ct, vec in vectors.items()}
    else:
        update_context_vectors(
            cui_info['context_vectors'], cui, vectors, lr,
            negative=negative)
    if not negative:
        cui_info['count_train'] += 1
    # Debug
    logger.debug("Updating CUI: %s with negative=%s", cui, negative)

    if not negative:
        # Update the name count, if possible
        if entity.detected_name:
            self.name2info[entity.detected_name]['count_train'] += 1

        if self.config.calculate_dynamic_threshold:
            # Update average confidence for this CUI
            sim = self.similarity(
                cui, entity, doc, per_doc_valid_token_cache)
            new_conf = get_updated_average_confidence(
                cui_info['average_confidence'],
                cui_info['count_train'], sim)
            cui_info['average_confidence'] = new_conf

    if negative:
        # Change the status of the name so that it has
        # to be disambiguated always
        for name in names:
            if name not in self.name2info:
                continue
            per_cui_status = self.name2info[name]['per_cui_status']
            cui_status = per_cui_status.get(cui, None)
            if cui_status == ST.PRIMARY_STATUS_NO_DISAMB:
                # Set this name to always be disambiguated, even
                # though it is primary
                per_cui_status[cui] = ST.PRIMARY_STATUS_W_DISAMB
                # Debug
                logger.debug("Updating status for CUI: %s, "
                             "name: %s to <%s>", cui, name,
                             ST.PRIMARY_STATUS_W_DISAMB)
            elif cui_status == ST.AUTOMATIC:
                # Set this name to always be disambiguated instead of A
                per_cui_status[cui] = ST.MUST_DISAMBIGATE
                logger.debug("Updating status for CUI: %s, "
                             "name: %s to <N>", cui, name)
    if not negative and self.config.devalue_linked_concepts:
        # Find what other concepts can be disambiguated against this
        _other_cuis_chain = chain(*[
            self.name2info[name]['per_cui_status'].keys()
            for name in self.cui2info[cui]['names']])
        # Remove the cui of the current concept
        _other_cuis = set(_other_cuis_chain) - {cui}

        for _cui in _other_cuis:
            info = self.cui2info[_cui]
            if not info['context_vectors']:
                info['context_vectors'] = vectors
            else:
                update_context_vectors(
                    info['context_vectors'], cui, vectors, lr,
                    negative=True)

        logger.debug("Devalued via names.\n\tBase cui: %s \n\t"
                     "To be devalued: %s\n", cui, _other_cuis)

train_using_negative_sampling

train_using_negative_sampling(cui: str) -> None

Source code in medcat-v2/medcat/components/linking/vector_context_model.py

def train_using_negative_sampling(self, cui: str) -> None:
    vectors = {}

    # Get vectors for each context type
    for context_type, size in self.config.context_vector_sizes.items():
        # While it should be size*2 it is already too many negative
        # examples, so we leave it at size
        ignore_pn = self.config.negative_ignore_punct_and_num
        inds = self.vocab.get_negative_samples(
            size, ignore_punct_and_num=ignore_pn)
        # NOTE: all indices in negative sampling have vectors
        #       since that's how they're generated
        values: list[np.ndarray] = self.vocab.get_vectors(inds)
        if len(values) > 0:
            vectors[context_type] = np.average(values, axis=0)
        # Debug
        logger.debug("Updating CUI: %s, with %s negative words",
                     cui, len(inds))

    cui_info = self.cui2info[cui]
    lr = get_lr_linking(self.config, cui_info['count_train'])
    # Do the update for all context types
    if not cui_info['context_vectors']:
        cui_info['context_vectors'] = vectors
    else:
        update_context_vectors(cui_info['context_vectors'], cui, vectors,
                               lr, negative=True)

DisambPreprocessor

Bases: Protocol

PerDocumentTokenCache

Bases: dict[MutableToken, bool]

get_lr_linking

get_lr_linking(config: Linking, cui_count: int) -> float

Source code in medcat-v2/medcat/components/linking/vector_context_model.py

def get_lr_linking(config: Linking, cui_count: int) -> float:
    if config.optim['type'] == 'standard':
        return config.optim['lr']
    elif config.optim['type'] == 'linear':
        lr = config.optim['base_lr']
        cui_count += 1  # Just in case increase by 1
        return max(lr / cui_count, config.optim['min_lr'])
    else:
        raise Exception("Optimizer not implemented")

get_similarity

get_similarity(cur_vectors: dict[str, ndarray], other: dict[str, ndarray], weights: dict[str, float], cui: str, cui2info: dict[str, CUIInfo]) -> float

Source code in medcat-v2/medcat/components/linking/vector_context_model.py

def get_similarity(cur_vectors: dict[str, np.ndarray],
                   other: dict[str, np.ndarray],
                   weights: dict[str, float], cui: str,
                   cui2info: dict[str, CUIInfo]) -> float:
    sim = 0
    for vec_type in weights:
        if vec_type not in other:
            # NOTE: sometimes the smaller context context types
            #       are unable to capture tokens that are present
            #       in our voab, which means they don't produce
            #       a value to be used here.
            continue
        if vec_type not in cur_vectors:
            # NOTE: this means that the saved vector doesn't have
            #       context at this vector type. This should be a
            #       rare occurrence, but is definitely present in
            #       models converted from v1
            continue
        w = weights[vec_type]
        v1 = cur_vectors[vec_type]
        v2 = other[vec_type]
        s = np.dot(unitvec(v1), unitvec(v2))
        sim += w * s
        logger.debug("Similarity for CUI: %s, Count: %s, Context Type: %.10s, "
                     "Weight: %s.2f, Similarity: %s.3f, S*W: %s.3f",
                     cui, cui2info[cui]['count_train'], vec_type, w, s, s * w)
    return float(sim)

get_updated_average_confidence

get_updated_average_confidence(cur_ac: float, cnt_train: int, new_sim: float) -> float

Source code in medcat-v2/medcat/components/linking/vector_context_model.py

def get_updated_average_confidence(cur_ac: float, cnt_train: int,
                                   new_sim: float) -> float:
    return (cur_ac * cnt_train + new_sim) / (cnt_train + 1)

update_context_vectors

update_context_vectors(to_update: dict[str, ndarray], cui: str, new_vecs: dict[str, ndarray], lr: float, negative: bool) -> None

Source code in medcat-v2/medcat/components/linking/vector_context_model.py

def update_context_vectors(to_update: dict[str, np.ndarray], cui: str,
                           new_vecs: dict[str, np.ndarray], lr: float,
                           negative: bool) -> None:
    similarity = None
    for context_type, vector in new_vecs.items():
        # Get the right context
        if context_type in to_update:
            cv = to_update[context_type]
            similarity = np.dot(unitvec(cv), unitvec(vector))

            if negative:
                # Add negative context
                b = max(0, similarity) * lr
                to_update[context_type] = cv * (1 - b) - vector * b
            else:
                b = (1 - max(0, similarity)) * lr
                to_update[context_type] = cv * (1 - b) + vector * b

            # DEBUG
            logger.debug("Updated vector embedding.\n"
                         "CUI: %s, Context Type: %s, Similarity: %.2f, "
                         "Is Negative: %s, LR: %.5f, b: %.3f", cui,
                         context_type, similarity, negative, lr, b)
            cv = to_update[context_type]
            similarity_after = np.dot(unitvec(cv), unitvec(vector))
            logger.debug("Similarity before vs after: %.5f vs %.5f",
                         similarity, similarity_after)
        else:
            if negative:
                to_update[context_type] = -1 * vector
            else:
                to_update[context_type] = vector

            # DEBUG
            logger.debug("Added new context type with vectors.\n" +
                         "CUI: %s, Context Type: %s, Is Negative: %s",
                         cui, context_type, negative)