如何按标题拆分 Markdown
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许多聊天或问答应用程序涉及在嵌入和向量存储之前对输入文档进行分块。
来自 Pinecone 的这些注释提供了一些有用的技巧
When a full paragraph or document is embedded, the embedding process considers both the overall context and the relationships between the sentences and phrases within the text. This can result in a more comprehensive vector representation that captures the broader meaning and themes of the text.
如前所述,分块通常旨在将具有共同上下文的文本保持在一起。考虑到这一点,我们可能希望特别尊重文档本身的结构。例如,markdown 文件按标题组织。在特定标题组中创建块是一个直观的想法。为了解决这个挑战,我们可以使用 MarkdownHeaderTextSplitter。这将按指定的一组标题拆分 markdown 文件。
例如,如果我们想拆分这个 markdown
md = '# Foo\n\n ## Bar\n\nHi this is Jim \nHi this is Joe\n\n ## Baz\n\n Hi this is Molly'
我们可以指定要拆分的标题
[("#", "Header 1"),("##", "Header 2")]
内容按公共标题分组或拆分
{'content': 'Hi this is Jim \nHi this is Joe', 'metadata': {'Header 1': 'Foo', 'Header 2': 'Bar'}}
{'content': 'Hi this is Molly', 'metadata': {'Header 1': 'Foo', 'Header 2': 'Baz'}}
让我们看一些下面的例子。
基本用法:
%pip install -qU langchain-text-splitters
from langchain_text_splitters import MarkdownHeaderTextSplitter
API 参考:MarkdownHeaderTextSplitter
markdown_document = "# Foo\n\n ## Bar\n\nHi this is Jim\n\nHi this is Joe\n\n ### Boo \n\n Hi this is Lance \n\n ## Baz\n\n Hi this is Molly"
headers_to_split_on = [
("#", "Header 1"),
("##", "Header 2"),
("###", "Header 3"),
]
markdown_splitter = MarkdownHeaderTextSplitter(headers_to_split_on)
md_header_splits = markdown_splitter.split_text(markdown_document)
md_header_splits
[Document(page_content='Hi this is Jim \nHi this is Joe', metadata={'Header 1': 'Foo', 'Header 2': 'Bar'}),
Document(page_content='Hi this is Lance', metadata={'Header 1': 'Foo', 'Header 2': 'Bar', 'Header 3': 'Boo'}),
Document(page_content='Hi this is Molly', metadata={'Header 1': 'Foo', 'Header 2': 'Baz'})]
type(md_header_splits[0])
langchain_core.documents.base.Document
默认情况下,MarkdownHeaderTextSplitter
会从输出块的内容中去除被分割的标题。可以通过设置 strip_headers = False
来禁用此行为。
markdown_splitter = MarkdownHeaderTextSplitter(headers_to_split_on, strip_headers=False)
md_header_splits = markdown_splitter.split_text(markdown_document)
md_header_splits
[Document(page_content='# Foo \n## Bar \nHi this is Jim \nHi this is Joe', metadata={'Header 1': 'Foo', 'Header 2': 'Bar'}),
Document(page_content='### Boo \nHi this is Lance', metadata={'Header 1': 'Foo', 'Header 2': 'Bar', 'Header 3': 'Boo'}),
Document(page_content='## Baz \nHi this is Molly', metadata={'Header 1': 'Foo', 'Header 2': 'Baz'})]
如何将 Markdown 行作为单独的文档返回
默认情况下,MarkdownHeaderTextSplitter
会根据 headers_to_split_on
中指定的标题聚合行。我们可以通过指定 return_each_line
来禁用此行为。
markdown_splitter = MarkdownHeaderTextSplitter(
headers_to_split_on,
return_each_line=True,
)
md_header_splits = markdown_splitter.split_text(markdown_document)
md_header_splits
[Document(page_content='Hi this is Jim', metadata={'Header 1': 'Foo', 'Header 2': 'Bar'}),
Document(page_content='Hi this is Joe', metadata={'Header 1': 'Foo', 'Header 2': 'Bar'}),
Document(page_content='Hi this is Lance', metadata={'Header 1': 'Foo', 'Header 2': 'Bar', 'Header 3': 'Boo'}),
Document(page_content='Hi this is Molly', metadata={'Header 1': 'Foo', 'Header 2': 'Baz'})]
请注意,此处标题信息保留在每个文档的 metadata
中。
如何限制块大小:
在每个 Markdown 组中,我们可以应用任何我们想要的文本分割器,例如 RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter
,它可以进一步控制块大小。
markdown_document = "# Intro \n\n ## History \n\n Markdown[9] is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. John Gruber created Markdown in 2004 as a markup language that is appealing to human readers in its source code form.[9] \n\n Markdown is widely used in blogging, instant messaging, online forums, collaborative software, documentation pages, and readme files. \n\n ## Rise and divergence \n\n As Markdown popularity grew rapidly, many Markdown implementations appeared, driven mostly by the need for \n\n additional features such as tables, footnotes, definition lists,[note 1] and Markdown inside HTML blocks. \n\n #### Standardization \n\n From 2012, a group of people, including Jeff Atwood and John MacFarlane, launched what Atwood characterised as a standardisation effort. \n\n ## Implementations \n\n Implementations of Markdown are available for over a dozen programming languages."
headers_to_split_on = [
("#", "Header 1"),
("##", "Header 2"),
]
# MD splits
markdown_splitter = MarkdownHeaderTextSplitter(
headers_to_split_on=headers_to_split_on, strip_headers=False
)
md_header_splits = markdown_splitter.split_text(markdown_document)
# Char-level splits
from langchain_text_splitters import RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter
chunk_size = 250
chunk_overlap = 30
text_splitter = RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter(
chunk_size=chunk_size, chunk_overlap=chunk_overlap
)
# Split
splits = text_splitter.split_documents(md_header_splits)
splits
[Document(page_content='# Intro \n## History \nMarkdown[9] is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. John Gruber created Markdown in 2004 as a markup language that is appealing to human readers in its source code form.[9]', metadata={'Header 1': 'Intro', 'Header 2': 'History'}),
Document(page_content='Markdown is widely used in blogging, instant messaging, online forums, collaborative software, documentation pages, and readme files.', metadata={'Header 1': 'Intro', 'Header 2': 'History'}),
Document(page_content='## Rise and divergence \nAs Markdown popularity grew rapidly, many Markdown implementations appeared, driven mostly by the need for \nadditional features such as tables, footnotes, definition lists,[note 1] and Markdown inside HTML blocks.', metadata={'Header 1': 'Intro', 'Header 2': 'Rise and divergence'}),
Document(page_content='#### Standardization \nFrom 2012, a group of people, including Jeff Atwood and John MacFarlane, launched what Atwood characterised as a standardisation effort.', metadata={'Header 1': 'Intro', 'Header 2': 'Rise and divergence'}),
Document(page_content='## Implementations \nImplementations of Markdown are available for over a dozen programming languages.', metadata={'Header 1': 'Intro', 'Header 2': 'Implementations'})]