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//! Recovering an author a record does not have.
//!
//! All of it local: what the book says about itself on its own first pages,
//! and what its title says. No lookup, no network, and nothing applied — a
//! name is proposed with the evidence that produced it and how far it is
//! worth trusting.
use std::sync::LazyLock;
use fancy_regex::Regex as Boundaried;
use regex::Regex;
use schemars::JsonSchema;
use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
use textkit::pattern::{SPACE, WORD_END, WORD_START};
fn pattern(source: &str) -> Regex {
Regex::new(source).expect("a valid pattern")
}
/// Words that mark a candidate as title or publisher bleed rather than a
/// person. Without them the looser heuristics propose the imprint.
static NOT_A_PERSON: LazyLock<Boundaried> = LazyLock::new(|| {
Boundaried::new(&format!(
r"(?i){WORD_START}(press|edition|introduction|university|volume|reprint|copyright|published|printed|rights|reserved|library|congress|isbn|inc|ltd|company|regents|trustees|foundation|institute|society|association|board|council|committee|department|ministry|editors?|trust|publishing|publishers|books|publications|sons|llc|gmbh|verlag|all|limited){WORD_END}"
))
.expect("a valid pattern")
});
/// One token of a name: a capitalised word, a bare initial, or a nobiliary
/// particle that appears in the middle of one.
static NAME_TOKEN: LazyLock<Regex> = LazyLock::new(|| {
pattern(
r"^(?:[A-Z][A-Za-z’'\-]+\.?|[A-Z]\.|(?:von|van|de|den|der|del|della|di|da|la|le|du|ter|ten))$",
)
});
/// Where several authors are joined.
static AUTHOR_SEPARATOR: LazyLock<Regex> =
LazyLock::new(|| pattern(&format!(r"(?i){SPACE}+(?:and|&){SPACE}+")));
/// "et al", "and others", and everything after.
static ET_AL: LazyLock<Regex> = LazyLock::new(|| {
pattern(&format!(
r"(?i)[{SPACE},]+(?:et{SPACE}+al\.?|and{SPACE}+others).*$"
))
});
static SPACE_RUN: LazyLock<Regex> = LazyLock::new(|| pattern(&format!(r"{SPACE}+")));
/// An ISBN announced on the copyright page.
static ISBN: LazyLock<Regex> = LazyLock::new(|| {
pattern(&format!(
r"ISBN[:{SPACE}]*((?:97[89][{SPACE}-]?)?(?:[0-9][{SPACE}-]?){{9}}[0-9Xx])"
))
});
/// The strongest thing a book says about who wrote it.
static COPYRIGHT: LazyLock<Regex> = LazyLock::new(|| {
pattern(&format!(
r"(?i)Copyright{SPACE}*(?:©|\(c\))?{SPACE}*\d{{4}}{SPACE}+by{SPACE}+(.{{2,90}})"
))
});
/// The cataloguing block a national library prints on the copyright page.
static CATALOGUING: LazyLock<Regex> = LazyLock::new(|| {
pattern(&format!(
r"(?i)Cataloging.{{0,40}}Publication(?:{SPACE}+Data)?"
))
});
/// Its main entry, which is the author, written surname first.
static MAIN_ENTRY: LazyLock<Regex> =
LazyLock::new(|| pattern(r"([A-Z][A-Za-z'’-]+),\s+([A-Z][A-Za-z.ّ'’ -]{1,40}?)[,.]"));
/// "… by Author Name" at the end of a title.
static TITLE_BY: LazyLock<Boundaried> = LazyLock::new(|| {
Boundaried::new(&format!(
r"(?i){WORD_START}by{SPACE}+([A-Z][A-Za-z.'’ -]{{2,60}})$"
))
.expect("a valid pattern")
});
/// A title that opens with the author's name run together.
static TITLE_CAMEL: LazyLock<Regex> = LazyLock::new(|| pattern(r"^([A-Z][a-z]+[A-Z][a-z]+)[-\s]"));
static CAMEL_PARTS: LazyLock<Regex> = LazyLock::new(|| pattern(r"[A-Z][a-z]+"));
/// Roman numerals that are a suffix on a name rather than shouting.
const ROMAN_SUFFIXES: &[&str] = &["II", "III", "IV", "V", "VI"];
/// Characters trimmed from the ends of a candidate.
const EDGES: &[char] = &[' ', '.', ',', ';', ':', '—', '-', '\t', '\n'];
/// How far into a book's front matter to look.
pub const FRONT_MATTER_CHARS: usize = 8000;
/// Digits that are digits to Python and are not decimal.
///
/// A candidate name containing any digit is refused, and "any digit" there
/// means superscripts and circled numbers too — the ones a scanned page picks
/// up from a footnote marker.
const DIGIT_RANGES: &[(char, char)] = &[
('\u{b2}', '\u{b3}'),
('\u{b9}', '\u{b9}'),
('\u{1369}', '\u{1371}'),
('\u{19da}', '\u{19da}'),
('\u{2070}', '\u{2070}'),
('\u{2074}', '\u{2079}'),
('\u{2080}', '\u{2089}'),
('\u{2460}', '\u{2468}'),
('\u{2474}', '\u{247c}'),
('\u{2488}', '\u{2490}'),
('\u{24ea}', '\u{24ea}'),
('\u{24f5}', '\u{24fd}'),
('\u{24ff}', '\u{24ff}'),
('\u{2776}', '\u{277e}'),
('\u{2780}', '\u{2788}'),
('\u{278a}', '\u{2792}'),
('\u{10a40}', '\u{10a43}'),
('\u{10e60}', '\u{10e68}'),
('\u{11052}', '\u{1105a}'),
('\u{1f100}', '\u{1f10a}'),
];
/// A name, where it came from, and how far it is worth trusting.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize, JsonSchema)]
pub struct Suggestion {
/// The name, normalised.
pub author: String,
/// Which signal produced it.
pub method: String,
/// How far to trust it, from zero to one.
#[serde(with = "corpus_core::finite")]
#[schemars(with = "f64")]
pub confidence: f64,
/// The text it was read from, so a person can check it.
pub evidence: String,
/// An ISBN found alongside it, if there was one.
pub isbn: Option<String>,
}
/// The best name a record's own text and title can offer, if any.
///
/// Candidates are gathered cheapest and most trustworthy first, and the most
/// confident wins. An ISBN found in the front matter is carried onto the
/// winner even when the winner came from the title, because the two are
/// facts about the same book.
pub fn best(title: &str, front_matter: Option<&str>) -> Option<Suggestion> {
let mut candidates: Vec<Suggestion> = Vec::new();
if let Some(text) = front_matter {
candidates.extend(from_front_matter(text));
}
candidates.extend(from_title(title));
let isbn = candidates
.iter()
.find_map(|candidate| candidate.isbn.clone());
// The first of the most confident, which is the earliest and therefore
// the cheapest signal that scored highest.
let mut winner = candidates.into_iter().reduce(|best, candidate| {
match candidate.confidence > best.confidence {
true => candidate,
false => best,
}
})?;
if winner.isbn.is_none() {
winner.isbn = isbn;
}
Some(winner)
}
/// Names a book's own front matter offers.
pub fn from_front_matter(text: &str) -> Vec<Suggestion> {
let isbn = ISBN
.captures(text)
.and_then(|found| normalise_isbn(&found[1]));
let mut out = Vec::new();
// Strongest: the book saying who holds its copyright.
if let Some(found) = COPYRIGHT.captures(text)
&& let Some(name) = clean(&name_prefix(&found[1]))
&& name.split_whitespace().count() >= 2
{
// Two words at least: a lone surname is not an attribution.
out.push(Suggestion {
evidence: format!("…by {name}"),
author: name,
method: "front_matter_copyright".into(),
confidence: 0.9,
isbn: isbn.clone(),
});
}
// The cataloguing block's main entry, written surname first. The
// boilerplate is consumed first so the window starts at the name rather
// than at the last word of the heading.
if let Some(heading) = CATALOGUING.find(text) {
let from = heading.end();
let window: String = text[from..].chars().take(300).collect();
if let Some(found) = MAIN_ENTRY.captures(&window)
&& let Some(name) = clean(&format!("{} {}", &found[2], &found[1]))
{
out.push(Suggestion {
author: name,
method: "front_matter_loc".into(),
confidence: 0.8,
evidence: found[0]
.trim_matches(textkit::is_space)
.chars()
.take(200)
.collect(),
isbn,
});
}
}
out
}
/// Names the title string itself offers.
pub fn from_title(title: &str) -> Vec<Suggestion> {
let mut out = Vec::new();
if let Ok(Some(found)) = TITLE_BY.captures(title)
&& let Some(name) = clean(&found[1])
{
out.push(Suggestion {
author: name,
method: "title_by".into(),
confidence: 0.7,
evidence: found[0].trim_matches(textkit::is_space).to_string(),
isbn: None,
});
}
if let Some(found) = TITLE_CAMEL.captures(title)
&& let Some(split) = split_camel(&found[1])
{
out.push(Suggestion {
author: split,
method: "title_camel".into(),
confidence: 0.5,
evidence: found[1].to_string(),
isbn: None,
});
}
out
}
/// The leading run of name tokens, stopping at prose.
///
/// "James H. Billington Printed in the…" is "James H. Billington". The run is
/// capped so that a sentence which happens to start with capitals cannot be
/// swallowed whole, and a word ending in a full stop that is not an initial
/// ends the name — it is the end of a sentence.
pub fn name_prefix(text: &str) -> String {
let mut tokens: Vec<&str> = Vec::new();
for raw in text.split_whitespace() {
let token = raw.trim_matches([',', ';', ':', '(', ')']);
let core = token.trim_matches('.');
if core.is_empty() || NOT_A_PERSON.is_match(core).unwrap_or(false) {
break;
}
if !NAME_TOKEN.is_match(token) {
break;
}
tokens.push(token);
if token.ends_with('.') && core.chars().count() > 1 {
break;
}
if tokens.len() >= 5 {
break;
}
}
tokens.join(" ")
}
/// Normalise a candidate, or refuse it if it does not read as a person.
pub fn clean(raw: &str) -> Option<String> {
let name = SPACE_RUN.replace_all(raw, " ");
let name = name.trim_matches(|c: char| EDGES.contains(&c));
if name.is_empty() || name.chars().any(is_digit) {
return None;
}
if NOT_A_PERSON.is_match(name).unwrap_or(false) {
return None;
}
normalise(name)
}
/// Normalise a name, keeping co-authors joined.
///
/// `None` when any one author fails the shape a person's name has: one to
/// five words, capitalised, and not opening with an article.
pub fn normalise(raw: &str) -> Option<String> {
let name = ET_AL.replace(raw, "");
let name = name.trim_matches(textkit::is_space);
let authors: Vec<String> = AUTHOR_SEPARATOR
.split(name)
.map(|segment| segment.trim_matches(textkit::is_space))
.filter(|segment| !segment.is_empty())
.map(normalise_tokens)
.collect();
if authors.is_empty() {
return None;
}
for author in &authors {
let words: Vec<&str> = author.split_whitespace().collect();
if author.is_empty() || !(1..=5).contains(&words.len()) {
return None;
}
let first = author.chars().next()?;
if !first.is_uppercase() || words[0].to_lowercase() == "the" {
return None;
}
}
Some(authors.join(" & "))
}
/// Fix shouting and bare initials within one name.
fn normalise_tokens(segment: &str) -> String {
segment
.split_whitespace()
.map(|token| {
let core = token.trim_matches('.');
let shouting = core.chars().all(char::is_alphabetic)
&& !core.is_empty()
&& core.chars().all(|c| !c.is_lowercase())
&& core.chars().any(char::is_uppercase)
&& core.chars().count() > 1
&& !ROMAN_SUFFIXES.contains(&core);
if shouting {
let mut fixed = capitalise(core);
if token.ends_with('.') {
fixed.push('.');
}
return fixed;
}
if core.chars().count() == 1
&& token.chars().count() == 1
&& core.chars().all(|c| c.is_alphabetic() && c.is_uppercase())
{
return format!("{token}.");
}
token.to_string()
})
.collect::<Vec<_>>()
.join(" ")
}
fn capitalise(word: &str) -> String {
let mut chars = word.chars();
match chars.next() {
None => String::new(),
Some(first) => first.to_uppercase().collect::<String>() + &chars.as_str().to_lowercase(),
}
}
/// A run-together name split back apart, when it is two or three parts.
fn split_camel(token: &str) -> Option<String> {
let parts: Vec<&str> = CAMEL_PARTS
.find_iter(token)
.map(|found| found.as_str())
.collect();
let rejoined: String = parts.concat();
((2..=3).contains(&parts.len()) && rejoined == token).then(|| parts.join(" "))
}
fn normalise_isbn(raw: &str) -> Option<String> {
let digits = crate::isbn::digits(raw);
matches!(digits.len(), 10 | 13).then(|| digits.to_uppercase())
}
/// Whether a character is a digit, by Python's definition — which counts the
/// superscripts and the circled numbers that a decimal test does not.
fn is_digit(c: char) -> bool {
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// Not `is_ascii_digit`: a decimal digit in any script is a digit, and a
// name carrying one is not a name whichever script it is written in.
#[allow(clippy::is_digit_ascii_radix)]
let decimal = c.is_digit(10);
decimal
|| DIGIT_RANGES
.iter()
.any(|(from, to)| (*from..=*to).contains(&c))
}
#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
use super::*;
#[test]
fn a_copyright_line_names_the_author() {
let text = "Copyright © 1999 by James H. Billington\nPrinted in the United States";
let found = from_front_matter(text);
assert_eq!(found[0].author, "James H. Billington");
assert_eq!(found[0].method, "front_matter_copyright");
assert_eq!(found[0].confidence, 0.9);
}
#[test]
fn a_cataloguing_block_names_the_author_surname_first() {
let text = "Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data\n\
Billington, James H., 1929-\n The icon and the axe.";
let found = from_front_matter(text);
assert_eq!(found[0].author, "James H. Billington");
assert_eq!(found[0].method, "front_matter_loc");
}
#[test]
fn an_isbn_on_the_same_page_comes_with_the_name() {
let text = "Copyright © 1999 by James Billington\nISBN 978-0-19-823790-7";
assert_eq!(
from_front_matter(text)[0].isbn.as_deref(),
Some("9780198237907")
);
}
#[test]
fn a_title_that_names_its_author_offers_it() {
let found = from_title("The Icon and the Axe by James Billington");
assert_eq!(found[0].author, "James Billington");
assert_eq!(found[0].method, "title_by");
}
#[test]
fn a_run_together_name_at_the_front_of_a_title_is_split() {
let found = from_title("CarrollQuigley Tragedy and Hope");
assert_eq!(found[0].author, "Carroll Quigley");
assert_eq!(found[0].confidence, 0.5);
}
#[test]
fn the_most_confident_candidate_wins_and_keeps_the_isbn() {
let front = "Copyright © 1999 by James Billington\nISBN 0198237901";
let found = best("Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quigley", Some(front)).expect("a name");
assert_eq!(found.author, "James Billington");
assert_eq!(found.isbn.as_deref(), Some("0198237901"));
}
#[test]
fn an_isbn_alone_is_not_carried_anywhere() {
// The ISBN rides along with a name the front matter produced. Front
// matter that names nobody produces no candidate for it to ride on.
let front = "ISBN 0198237901\nno attribution here";
let found = best("Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quigley", Some(front)).expect("a name");
assert_eq!(found.method, "title_by");
assert_eq!(found.isbn, None);
}
#[test]
fn a_publisher_is_not_a_person() {
assert_eq!(clean("Oxford University Press"), None);
assert_eq!(clean("The Regents of the University"), None);
assert!(from_front_matter("Copyright © 1999 by Cambridge University Press").is_empty());
}
#[test]
fn a_name_with_a_number_in_it_is_refused() {
assert_eq!(clean("James Billington 1929"), None);
assert_eq!(clean("James\u{b2} Billington"), None);
}
#[test]
fn shouting_and_bare_initials_are_fixed() {
assert_eq!(clean("ARISTOTLE").as_deref(), Some("Aristotle"));
assert_eq!(clean("Barbara A Kerr").as_deref(), Some("Barbara A. Kerr"));
assert_eq!(clean("Smith Jr. II").as_deref(), Some("Smith Jr. II"));
}
#[test]
fn co_authors_are_kept_and_joined() {
assert_eq!(
clean("John Schuster and John Sutton").as_deref(),
Some("John Schuster & John Sutton")
);
}
#[test]
fn everything_after_et_al_is_dropped() {
assert_eq!(clean("Smith et al.").as_deref(), Some("Smith"));
assert_eq!(clean("Smith and others").as_deref(), Some("Smith"));
// Refused before the trailing text is ever reached: a candidate with
// a digit in it is not a name.
assert_eq!(clean("Smith, and others, 1999"), None);
}
#[test]
fn something_that_is_not_a_name_is_refused() {
assert_eq!(clean(""), None);
assert_eq!(clean("the icon and the axe"), None);
assert_eq!(
clean("A Very Long Name With Far Too Many Words In It"),
None
);
}
#[test]
fn a_name_run_stops_at_prose() {
assert_eq!(
name_prefix("James H. Billington Printed in the United States"),
"James H. Billington"
);
assert_eq!(name_prefix("Ludwig von Mises wrote"), "Ludwig von Mises");
}
#[test]
fn nothing_to_go_on_offers_nothing() {
assert_eq!(best("An Ordinary Title", None), None);
assert_eq!(best("", Some("")), None);
}
}