Nettlesome: Simplified Semantic Reasoning

Release v. 0.6.1.

Nettlesome is a Python library defining a limited grammar of natural-language statements that can be compared programmatically for implication or contradiction.

Nettlesome is intended for use where there is a limited schema of statements that can be used to annotate a dataset with categories, numbers, quantities, and dates. One example of such a schema is the National Information Exchange Model.

Although Nettlesome was designed to be used for legal annotations in the AuthoritySpoke library, Nettlesome itself doesn’t depend on any legal concepts or legal knowledge.

Guides

• Introduction to Nettlesome
  • “Predicates” as descriptors
  • Linking predicates to entities
  • Comparing quantitative statements
  • Comparing groups of statements
• Comparisons with Context
  • Formatting Contexts for Comparison Methods
  • Comparing FactorGroups in Context
• Serializing Nettlesome Data
  • Loading JSON Data
  • Generating Schema Documentation
  • Dumping Objects to JSON

API Reference

• Comparables
• Terms
• Factors
• Entities
• Predicates
• Comparisons
• Quantity Ranges
• Statements
• Assertions
• Explanations
• Factor Groups

Development Updates

• On GitHub
• On Twitter
• Changelog

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page