Inferring the category

New in version 6.16.

When having the NLP API infer the category, a special value for the category is included: “auto”. This should be set wherever setting the category value is available.

When setting the category to “auto”, the subcategory will automatically be set to “auto” in all cases, so only setting the category is necessary. Setting the category to None is also supported in Python, but in most other cases (config file, CLI) setting parameters to None is impossible, so for consistency and clarity it’s best to use the “auto” string in all cases.

Examples

The config file in TOML format requires string values for the category, so you can set it to “auto”:

[emtellipro]
[process]
category = "auto"

Similarly the CLI process --category option requires an argument:

emtellipro-db-client process --category auto [...]

However, in Python one can use either “auto” or None:

from emtellipro.load import readfile
# both of these will have the same effect
loaded_file = readfile('path/to/doc.txt', category='auto')
loaded_file = readfile('path/to/doc.txt', category=None)

Every place where a function/class accepts a ‘category’ parameter, it can be set to “auto” or None.