"""
This module contains the functions for SVM classifier.
"""
from py_entitymatching.matcher.mlmatcher import MLMatcher
from py_entitymatching.matcher.matcherutils import get_ts
from sklearn.svm import SVC
[docs]class SVMMatcher(MLMatcher):
"""
SVM matcher.
Args:
*args,**kwargs: The arguments to scikit-learn's SVM
classifier.
name (string): The name of this matcher (defaults to None). If the
matcher name is None, the class automatically generates a string
and assigns it as the name.
"""
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
super(SVMMatcher, self).__init__()
# If the name is given, then pop it
name = kwargs.pop('name', None)
if name is None:
# If the name of the matcher is give, then create one.
# Currently, we use a constant string + a random number.
self.name = 'SVM'+ '_' + get_ts()
else:
# Set the name of the matcher, with the given name.
self.name = name
# Set the classifier to the scikit-learn classifier.
self.clf = SVC(*args, **kwargs)