Extracting Tokens with Flair#s TextClassifier

This function uses the TextClassifier model from the Flair library to extract tokens from the given text. It first loads the classifier for the specified language, then tokenizes the text, and returns a list containing all the tokens.

Technology Stack : Flair, TextClassifier

Code Type : Function

Code Difficulty : Intermediate

                
                    
def extract_tokens(text, language='en'):
    """
    Extract tokens from the given text using Flair's Tokenizer model.

    Args:
        text (str): The text from which to extract tokens.
        language (str, optional): The language of the text. Defaults to 'en'.

    Returns:
        list: A list of tokens extracted from the text.
    """
    import flair
    from flair.models import TextClassifier

    # Load the TextClassifier model for the specified language
    classifier = TextClassifier.load(language)

    # Tokenize the text
    tokens = classifier.get_tokens(text)
    return [token.text for token in tokens]