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+import random
+
+from geodata.address_expansions.gazetteers import *
+from geodata.encoding import safe_decode, safe_encode
+from geodata.text.tokenize import tokenize_raw, token_types
+
+
+LOWER, UPPER, TITLE, MIXED = range(4)
+
+
+def token_capitalization(s):
+    if s.istitle():
+        return TITLE
+    elif s.islower():
+        return LOWER
+    elif s.isupper():
+        return UPPER
+    else:
+        return MIXED
+
+
+def recase_abbreviation(expansion, tokens):
+    expansion_tokens = expansion.split()
+    if len(tokens) > len(expansion_tokens) and all((token_capitalization(t) != LOWER for t, c in tokens)):
+        return expansion.upper()
+    elif len(tokens) == len(expansion_tokens):
+        strings = []
+        for (t, c), e in zip(tokens, expansion_tokens):
+            cap = token_capitalization(t)
+            if cap == LOWER:
+                strings.append(e.lower())
+            elif cap == UPPER:
+                strings.append(e.upper())
+            elif cap == TITLE:
+                strings.append(e.title())
+            elif t.lower() == e.lower():
+                strings.append(t)
+            else:
+                strings.append(e.title())
+        return u' '.join(strings)
+    else:
+        return u' '.join([t.title() for t in expansion_tokens])
+
+
+def abbreviate(gazetteer, s, language, abbreviate_prob=0.3, separate_prob=0.2):
+    '''
+    Abbreviations
+    -------------
+
+    OSM discourages abbreviations, but to make our training data map better
+    to real-world input, we can safely replace the canonical phrase with an
+    abbreviated version and retain the meaning of the words
+    '''
+    raw_tokens = tokenize_raw(s)
+    s_utf8 = safe_encode(s)
+    tokens = [(safe_decode(s_utf8[o:o + l]), token_types.from_id(c)) for o, l, c in raw_tokens]
+    norm_tokens = [(t.lower() if c in token_types.WORD_TOKEN_TYPES else t, c) for t, c in tokens]
+
+    n = len(tokens)
+
+    abbreviated = []
+
+    i = 0
+
+    for t, c, length, data in gazetteer.filter(norm_tokens):
+        if c is PHRASE:
+            valid = []
+            data = [d.split('|') for d in data]
+
+            added = False
+
+            if random.random() > abbreviate_prob:
+                for j, (t_i, c_i) in enumerate(t):
+                    abbreviated.append(tokens[i + j][0])
+                    if i + j < n - 1 and raw_tokens[i + j + 1][0] > sum(raw_tokens[i + j][:2]):
+                        abbreviated.append(u' ')
+                i += len(t)
+                continue
+
+            for lang, dictionary, is_canonical, canonical in data:
+                if lang not in (language, 'all'):
+                    continue
+
+                is_canonical = int(is_canonical)
+                is_stopword = dictionary == 'stopword'
+                is_prefix = dictionary.startswith('concatenated_prefixes')
+                is_suffix = dictionary.startswith('concatenated_suffixes')
+                is_separable = is_prefix or is_suffix and dictionary.endswith('_separable') and len(t[0][0]) > length
+
+                suffix = None
+                prefix = None
+
+                if not is_canonical:
+                    continue
+
+                if not is_prefix and not is_suffix:
+                    abbreviations = gazetteer.canonicals.get((canonical, lang, dictionary))
+                    token = random.choice(abbreviations) if abbreviations else canonical
+                    token = recase_abbreviation(token, tokens[i:i + len(t)])
+                    abbreviated.append(token)
+                    if i + len(t) < n and raw_tokens[i + len(t)][0] > sum(raw_tokens[i + len(t) - 1][:2]):
+                        abbreviated.append(u' ')
+                    break
+                elif is_prefix:
+                    token = tokens[i][0]
+                    prefix, token = token[:length], token[length:]
+                    abbreviated.append(prefix)
+                    if random.random() < separate_prob:
+                        abbreviated.append(u' ')
+                    if token.islower():
+                        abbreviated.append(token.title())
+                    else:
+                        abbreviated.append(token)
+                    abbreviated.append(u' ')
+                    break
+                elif is_suffix:
+                    token = tokens[i][0]
+
+                    token, suffix = token[:-length], token[-length:]
+
+                    concatenated_abbreviations = gazetteer.canonicals.get((canonical, lang, dictionary), [])
+
+                    separated_abbreviations = []
+                    phrase = gazetteer.trie.get(suffix.rstrip('.'))
+                    suffix_data = [safe_decode(d).split(u'|') for d in (phrase or [])]
+                    for l, d, _, c in suffix_data:
+                        if l == lang and c == canonical:
+                            separated_abbreviations.extend(gazetteer.canonicals.get((canonical, lang, d)))
+
+                    separate = random.random() < separate_prob
+
+                    if concatenated_abbreviations and not separate:
+                        abbreviation = random.choice(concatenated_abbreviations)
+                    elif separated_abbreviations:
+                        abbreviation = random.choice(separated_abbreviations)
+                    else:
+                        abbreviation = canonical
+
+                    abbreviated.append(token)
+                    if separate:
+                        abbreviated.append(u' ')
+                    if suffix.isupper():
+                        abbreviated.append(abbreviation.upper())
+                    elif separate:
+                        abbreviated.append(abbreviation.title())
+                    else:
+                        abbreviated.append(abbreviation)
+                    abbreviated.append(u' ')
+                    break
+            else:
+                for j, (t_i, c_i) in enumerate(t):
+                    abbreviated.append(tokens[i + j][0])
+                    if i + j < n - 1 and raw_tokens[i + j + 1][0] > sum(raw_tokens[i + j][:2]):
+                        abbreviated.append(u' ')
+            i += len(t)
+
+        else:
+            abbreviated.append(tokens[i][0])
+            if i < n - 1 and raw_tokens[i + 1][0] > sum(raw_tokens[i][:2]):
+                abbreviated.append(u' ')
+            i += 1
+
+    return u''.join(abbreviated).strip()