def preprocess_ent_name(self, ent_name):
"""
Preprocesses entity name.
:return: Preprocessed entity name.
"""
ent_name = ent_name.strip()
ent_name = trim1(ent_name)
ent_name = ent_name.replace("&", "&")
ent_name = ent_name.replace(""", '"')
ent_name = ent_name.replace("_", " ")
ent_name = first_letter_to_uppercase(ent_name)
ent_name = self.wiki_redirect_ent_title(ent_name)
return ent_name
def preprocess_ent_name_for_wiki_id_lookup(self, ent_name):
"""
Preprocesses entity name for wikipedia id lookups. Since the
lookup map (wiki_name_id_map.txt) contains some special chars
as 'Johnson & Johnson' and '"Hello, World!" program'
we need to preserve them from predicted entity names for lookups
to have successful match.
:return: Preprocessed entity name for wikipedia id lookups
"""
ent_name = ent_name.strip()
ent_name = trim1(ent_name)
ent_name = ent_name.replace("_", " ")
ent_name = first_letter_to_uppercase(ent_name)
ent_name = self.wiki_redirect_ent_title(ent_name)
return ent_name