0.8.3 - 2020-09-11

This is a big release with a lot of changes. These changes are summarized here. Check the Changelog for more details.

Added

@YasushiMiyata: Add get_max_row_num to fonduer.utils.data_model_utils.tabular. (#469) (#480)
@HiromuHota: Add get_bbox() to Sentence and SpanMention. (#429)
@HiromuHota: Add a custom MLflow model that allows you to package a Fonduer model. See here for how to use it. (#259) (#407)
@HiromuHota: Support spaCy v2.2. (#384) (#432)
@wajdikhattel: Add multinary candidates. (#455) (#456)
@HiromuHota: Add nullables to candidate_subclass() to allow NULL mention in a candidate. (#496) (#497)
@HiromuHota: Copy textual functions in data_model_utils.tabular to data_model_utils.textual. (#503) (#505)

@YasushiMiyata: Enable RegexMatchSpan with concatenates words by sep="(separator)" option. (#270) (#492)
@HiromuHota: Enabled "Type hints (PEP 484) support for the Sphinx autodoc extension." (#421)
@HiromuHota: Switched the Cython wrapper for Mecab from mecab-python3 to fugashi. Since the Japanese tokenizer remains the same, there should be no impact on users. (#384) (#432)
@HiromuHota: Log a stack trace on parsing error for better debug experience. (#478) (#479)
@HiromuHota: get_cell_ngrams and get_neighbor_cell_ngrams yield nothing when the mention is not tabular. (#471) (#504)

@HiromuHota: Deprecated bbox_from_span and bbox_from_sentence. (#429)
@HiromuHota: Deprecated visualizer.get_box in favor of span.get_bbox(). (#445) (#446)
@HiromuHota: Deprecate textual functions in data_model_utils.tabular. (#503) (#505)

@senwu: Fix pdf_path cannot be without a trailing slash. (#442) (#459)
@kaikun213: Fix bug in table range difference calculations. (#420)
@HiromuHota: mention_extractor.apply with clear=True now works even if it's not the first run. (#424)
@HiromuHota: Fix get_horz_ngrams and get_vert_ngrams so that they work even when the input mention is not tabular. (#425) (#426)
@HiromuHota: Fix the order of args to Bbox. (#443) (#444)
@HiromuHota: Fix the non-deterministic behavior in VisualLinker. (#412) (#458)
@HiromuHota: Fix an issue that the progress bar shows no progress on preprocessing by executing preprocessing and parsing in parallel. (#439)
@HiromuHota: Adopt to mlflow>=1.9.0. (#461) (#463)
@HiromuHota: Correct the entity type for NumberMatcher from "NUMBER" to "CARDINAL". (#473) (#477)
@HiromuHota: Fix _get_axis_ngrams not to return None when the input is not tabular. (#481)
@HiromuHota: Fix Visualizer.display_candidates not to draw rectangles on wrong pages. (#488)
@HiromuHota: Persist doc only when no error happens during parsing. (#489) (#490)