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Getting ValueError: No objects to concatenate

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05-06-2022 06:29 AM
AviparnaBiswas
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Hello all,

Trying to use ArcGIS's arcgis.learn for preparing and loading the json.data. 

I am following the example from this page:

https://developers.arcgis.com/python/guide/how-named-entity-recognition-works/

And while following the example I am getting the above error:

json file that is being imported:

000445E4.json:

{"id": 4, "data": "Sir Chandrashekhara Venkata Raman was born in India.", "label": [[0, 33, "Person"], [46, 51, "Location"]]}

 I have used doccano for the above annotation.

Code up until now:

import os
import spacy
import random
from arcgis.learn import prepare_data
from arcgis.learn.text import EntityRecognizer

json_path = os.path.join('Entity_labels','Deed','annotations','000445E4.json')

data = prepare_data(path=json_path, dataset_type='ner_json')

 And the error I am getting while running the last line:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ValueError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-23-35d6ce63514b> in <module>
----> 1 data = prepare_data(path=json_path, dataset_type='ner_json')

~\Anaconda3\envs\docuchief\lib\site-packages\arcgis\learn\_data.py in prepare_data(path, class_mapping, chip_size, val_split_pct, batch_size, transforms, collate_fn, seed, dataset_type, resize_to, working_dir, **kwargs)
   2283             val_split_pct=val_split_pct,
   2284             batch_size=batch_size,
-> 2285             encoding=encoding,
   2286         )
   2287         if working_dir is not None:

~\Anaconda3\envs\docuchief\lib\site-packages\arcgis\learn\_utils\_ner_utils.py in __init__(self, dataset_type, path, batch_size, class_mapping, seed, val_split_pct, encoding)
    192         self.val_split_pct = val_split_pct
    193         self.encoding = encoding
--> 194         self.prepare_data_for_spacy()
    195 
    196     def show_batch(self):

~\Anaconda3\envs\docuchief\lib\site-packages\arcgis\learn\_utils\_ner_utils.py in prepare_data_for_spacy(self)
    361             batch_size=self.batch_size,
    362             address_tag=address_tag,
--> 363             test_ds=None,
    364         )
    365         self.data.path = path

~\Anaconda3\envs\docuchief\lib\site-packages\arcgis\learn\_utils\_ner_utils.py in __init__(self, ds, val_split_pct, batch_size, test_ds, address_tag)
    470         # creating an _spaCyNERItemlist with training dataset
    471         self.train_ds = _spaCyNERItemlist(
--> 472             batch_size, data=ds[: int(len(ds) * (1 - val_split_pct))]
    473         )
    474         # creating an _spaCyNERItemlist with validation dataset

~\Anaconda3\envs\docuchief\lib\site-packages\arcgis\learn\_utils\_ner_utils.py in __init__(self, batch_size, data)
    388                 i[2]
    389                 for i in pd.concat(
--> 390                     [pd.Series(i["entities"]) for i in [o[1] for o in data]]
    391                 )
    392             }

~\Anaconda3\envs\docuchief\lib\site-packages\pandas\util\_decorators.py in wrapper(*args, **kwargs)
    309                     stacklevel=stacklevel,
    310                 )
--> 311             return func(*args, **kwargs)
    312 
    313         return wrapper

~\Anaconda3\envs\docuchief\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\reshape\concat.py in concat(objs, axis, join, ignore_index, keys, levels, names, verify_integrity, sort, copy)
    302         verify_integrity=verify_integrity,
    303         copy=copy,
--> 304         sort=sort,
    305     )
    306 

~\Anaconda3\envs\docuchief\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\reshape\concat.py in __init__(self, objs, axis, join, keys, levels, names, ignore_index, verify_integrity, copy, sort)
    349 
    350         if len(objs) == 0:
--> 351             raise ValueError("No objects to concatenate")
    352 
    353         if keys is None:

ValueError: No objects to concatenate

 What can I do to solve it?

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PriyankaTuteja
Esri Contributor

@AviparnaBiswas Could you provide a sample data for reproducing this issue. The guide https://developers.arcgis.com/python/guide/how-named-entity-recognition-works/  has been updated and says that you need to use prepare_textdata instead of prepare_data function. You could follow the sample notebook available here to run NER model workflow end-to-end. This notebook includes json data as a gis item which is downloadable.  

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