Bitextor 8.3: Snake Runner, the Sentence Retirer

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Roy Batty, The Preverticant

What's Changed

• Neural tools (Vecalign and Neural Document Aligner) integration by @cgr71ii in Neural tools integration #235
• CI and tests updates and fixes by @cgr71ii in CI and tests updates and fixes #238
• Range of paragraphs count using option paragraphIdentification by @lpla in Final paragraph number #241
• Document pair output file by @aarongaliano in Document output #242
• Update Bicleaner(-AI) submodules given new Bicleaner Hardrules by @lpla in Update Bicleaner(-ai) submodules given new Bicleaner Hardrules #244
• Remove Linguacrawl from Bitextor by @aarongaliano in Remove linguacrawl #248
  • It is still compatible with Bitextor regarding the WARC format, but crawling management should be performed manually
• Metadata code refactorization by @cgr71ii in Some changes from neural_modifications branch: Metadata refactorization #245
• Now you can use compatible documents (like PDFs, TXTs, HTMLs) in the Bitextor input without encapsulating it into WARC or Prevertical formats! Check directories and directioriesFile documentation, by @aarongaliano in Dir2warc #247
• PDFprocessingoption (previously PDFextract). Now it is a list that allows you to choose whether to use pdf2html, pdfextract or Apache Tika (new PDF processor), by @aarongaliano in Dir2warc #247
• Now you can use warc2html (e.g. to process PDFs) with warc2text, by @aarongaliano in Dir2warc #247
• New Bitextor multilangoption (if activated, warc2text will extract content in different languages from the same document), by @aarongaliano in Dir2warc #247
• New Bitextor argument bicleanerExtraArgs to pass extra arguments to Bicleaner(-AI) by @lpla in Bitextor argument to pass extra arguments to Bicleaner(-AI) #250
• Add fastspell apt dependencies to Dockerfile by @aliciannz in Add fastspell apt dependencies to Dockerfile #249
• Scikit 1.1.3 updated base dependency, including new models for dict-based docaligner model by @aarongaliano in Scikit 1.1.3 #243
• New L2 normalization in TF-IDF translation-based document aligner by @lpla in New L2 normalization in TF-IDF document aligner #252
• Updated Python requirements, submodules, and documentation.
• Minor bug fixes and changes (including Some fixes #253)

New Contributors

• @aarongaliano made their first contribution in Document output #242
• @aliciannz made their first contribution in Add fastspell apt dependencies to Dockerfile #249

Full Changelog: v8.2...v8.3

Notes

bitextor-v8.3.zip tarball does include submodules code and binaries. If you start compiling the project after cloning from the repository, you need first to git submodule update --init --recursive. Also, you can't issue this command on the source code .tar.gz and .zip packages generated by GitHub, so we recommend the bitextor-v8.3.zip tarball or cloning the repo v8.3 tag.

We will support Bitextor 8.x branch until the next major version is released.

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