An abstract base class for splitters that return offsets.

Inherits From: Splitter

text.SplitterWithOffsets(
    name=None
)

Each SplitterWithOffsets subclass must implement the split_with_offsets method, which returns a tuple containing both the pieces and the offsets where those pieces occurred in the input string. E.g.:

class CharSplitter(SplitterWithOffsets):
  def split_with_offsets(self, input):
    chars, starts = tf.strings.unicode_split_with_offsets(input, 'UTF-8')
    lengths = tf.expand_dims(tf.strings.length(input), -1)
    ends = tf.concat([starts[..., 1:], tf.cast(lengths, tf.int64)], -1)
    return chars, starts, ends
  def split(self, input):
    return self.split_with_offsets(input)[0]
pieces, starts, ends = CharSplitter().split_with_offsets("a😊c")
print(pieces.numpy(), starts.numpy(), ends.numpy())
[b'a' b'\xf0\x9f\x98\x8a' b'c'] [0 1 5] [1 5 6]

Methods

split

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@abc.abstractmethod
split(
    input
)

Splits the input tensor into pieces.

Generally, the pieces returned by a splitter correspond to substrings of the original string, and can be encoded using either strings or integer ids.

Example:

print(tf_text.WhitespaceTokenizer().split("small medium large"))
tf.Tensor([b'small' b'medium' b'large'], shape=(3,), dtype=string)

split_with_offsets

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@abc.abstractmethod
split_with_offsets(
    input
)

Splits the input tensor, and returns the resulting pieces with offsets.

Example:

splitter = tf_text.WhitespaceTokenizer()
pieces, starts, ends = splitter.split_with_offsets("a bb ccc")
print(pieces.numpy(), starts.numpy(), ends.numpy())
[b'a' b'bb' b'ccc'] [0 2 5] [1 4 8]