def normalize()

in T5DST/create_data.py [0:0]

• 55 lines of code
• 13 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

def normalize(text, clean_value=True):
    # lower case every word
    text = text.lower()

    # replace white spaces in front and end
    text = re.sub(r'^\s*|\s*$', '', text)

    # hotel domain pfb30
    text = re.sub(r"b&b", "bed and breakfast", text)
    text = re.sub(r"b and b", "bed and breakfast", text)

    if clean_value:
        # normalize phone number
        ms = re.findall('\(?(\d{3})\)?[-.\s]?(\d{3})[-.\s]?(\d{4,5})', text)
        if ms:
            sidx = 0
            for m in ms:
                sidx = text.find(m[0], sidx)
                if text[sidx - 1] == '(':
                    sidx -= 1
                eidx = text.find(m[-1], sidx) + len(m[-1])
                text = text.replace(text[sidx:eidx], ''.join(m))

        # normalize postcode
        ms = re.findall('([a-z]{1}[\. ]?[a-z]{1}[\. ]?\d{1,2}[, ]+\d{1}[\. ]?[a-z]{1}[\. ]?[a-z]{1}|[a-z]{2}\d{2}[a-z]{2})',
                        text)
        if ms:
            sidx = 0
            for m in ms:
                sidx = text.find(m, sidx)
                eidx = sidx + len(m)
                text = text[:sidx] + re.sub('[,\. ]', '', m) + text[eidx:]

    # weird unicode bug
    text = re.sub(u"(\u2018|\u2019)", "'", text)

    if clean_value:
        # replace time and and price
        text = re.sub(timepat, ' [value_time] ', text)
        text = re.sub(pricepat, ' [value_price] ', text)
        #text = re.sub(pricepat2, '[value_price]', text)

    # replace st.
    text = text.replace(';', ',')
    text = re.sub('$\/', '', text)
    text = text.replace('/', ' and ')

    # replace other special characters
    text = text.replace('-', ' ')
    text = re.sub('[\"\<>@\(\)]', '', text) # remove

    # insert white space before and after tokens:
    for token in ['?', '.', ',', '!']:
        text = insertSpace(token, text)

    # insert white space for 's
    text = insertSpace('\'s', text)

    # replace it's, does't, you'd ... etc
    text = re.sub('^\'', '', text)
    text = re.sub('\'$', '', text)
    text = re.sub('\'\s', ' ', text)
    text = re.sub('\s\'', ' ', text)
    for fromx, tox in replacements:
        text = ' ' + text + ' '
        text = text.replace(fromx, tox)[1:-1]

    # remove multiple spaces
    text = re.sub(' +', ' ', text)

    # concatenate numbers
    tmp = text
    tokens = text.split()
    i = 1
    while i < len(tokens):
        if re.match(u'^\d+$', tokens[i]) and \
                re.match(u'\d+$', tokens[i - 1]):
            tokens[i - 1] += tokens[i]
            del tokens[i]
        else:
            i += 1
    text = ' '.join(tokens)

    return text