Identifies accents in tokens and creates a new token without the accents, using the most similar letter as a replacement.

Operates On:  Lexical Items with TOKEN and possibly other flags as specified below.

Stage can only be used as part of a manual pipeline or a base pipeline


Currently the only unicode scripts supported are:

  • Latin
  • Greek

Any other unicode script will remain untouched

Generic Configuration Parameters

  • boundaryFlags ( type=string array | optional ) - List of vertex flags that indicate the beginning and end of a text block.
    Tokens to process must be inside two vertices marked with this flag (e.g ["TEXT_BLOCK_SPLIT"])
  • skipFlags ( type=string array | optional ) - Flags to be skipped by this stage.
    Tokens marked with this flag will be ignored by this stage, and no processing will be performed.
  • requiredFlags ( type=string array | optional ) - Lex items flags required by every token to be processed.
    Tokens need to have all of the specified flags in order to be processed.
  • atLeastOneFlag ( type=string array | optional ) - Lex items flags needed by every token to be processed.
    Tokens will need at least one of the flags specified in this array.
  • confidenceAdjustment ( type=double | default=1 | required ) - Adjustment factor to apply to the confidence value of 0.0 to 2.0 from (Applies for every pattern match).
    • 0.0 to < 1.0  decreases confidence value
    • 1.0 confidence value remains the same
    • > 1.0 to  2.0 increases confidence value
  • debug ( type=boolean | default=false | optional ) - Enable all debug log functionality for the stage, if any.
  • enable ( type=boolean | default=true | optional ) - Indicates if the current stage should be consider for the Pipeline Manager
    • Only applies for automatic pipeline building

Example Output

V-----------[ÀÁÂÃÄÅ ÈÉÊË ÌÍÎÑÏ ÒÓÔÕÖ ÙÚÛÜ ÝŸ]-----------V 
^-[ÀÁÂÃÄÅ]-V-[ÈÉÊË]-V-[ÌÍÎÑÏ]-V-[ÒÓÔÕÖ]-V-[ÙÚÛÜ]-V-[ÝŸ]-^ 
^-[àáâãäå]-^-[èéêë]-^-[ìíîñï]-^-[òóôõö]-^-[ùúûü]-^-[ýÿ]-^ 
^-[AAAAAA]-^-[EEEE]-^-[IIINI]-^-[OOOOO]-^-[UUUU]-^-[YY]-^ 
^-[aaaaaa]-^-[eeee]-^-[iiini]-^-[ooooo]-^-[uuuu]-^-[yy]-^ 


V---------[ÏÐÑÒ ÓÔÕÖ × ØÙÑÚ ÛÜÝÞß!]---------V 
^-[ÏÐÑÒ]-V-[ÓÔÕÖ]-V-[×]-V-[ØÙÑÚ]-V-[ÛÜÝÞß!]-^ 
^-[ïðñò]-^-[óôõö]-^     ^-[øùñú]-^-[ûüýþß!]-^ 
^-[IÐNO]-^-[OOOO]-^     ^-[ØUNU]-^-[UUYÞß!]-^ 
^-[iðno]-^-[oooo]-^     ^-[øunu]-^-[uuyþß!]-^ 


V-------------[Ç Š Ž Œ Æ Þ Ð]-------------V 
^-[Ç]-V-[Š]-V-[Ž]-V-[Œ]-V-[Æ]-V-[Þ]-V-[Ð]-^ 
^-[ç]-^-[š]-^-[ž]-^-[œ]-^-[æ]-^-[þ]-^-[ð]-^ 
^-[C]-^-[S]-^-[Z]-^ 
^-[c]-^-[s]-^-[z]-^ 

V----------[Star, Inc., Lighting the Way...]----------V 
^-[Star,]-V-[Inc.,]-V-[Lighting]-V-[the]-V--[Way...]--^ 
^-[star,]-^-[inc.,]-^-[lighting]-^       ^--[way...]--^ 
                                         ^--[Way...]--^ 
                                         ^--[way...]--^

Output Flags

Lex-Item Flags:

  • HAS_ACCENT - Identifies all lexical items which contains an accent and are of the valid unicode script.
  • ACCENT_STRIPPED - All the tokens created without the accents will have .
  • TOKEN - All tokens produced are tagged as TOKEN.
  • ORIGINAL - The original token before removing the accent.

Vertex Flags:

No vertices are created in this stage