Feat/persian bm25 support - #684
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughBM25 now supports Persian. It normalizes Arabic Yeh and Kaf characters, loads UTF-8 Persian stopwords, and disables stemming for Persian. Normalization applies to documents, token counts, and queries. Tests cover resource configuration, stopword handling, sparse embeddings, query consistency, character equivalence, and parallel execution. Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Persian BM25 initialization will fail because its required stopword resource is not included in the published package. Merge should wait until that resource is shipped; the remaining lint cleanup is minor. Possibly related PRs
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In `@fastembed/sparse/bm25.py`:
- Line 37: Add persian.txt to the published Qdrant/bm25 artifact and ensure the
package-data or build configuration includes it, so Persian BM25 initialization
can retrieve the required stopword resource.
In `@tests/test_sparse_embeddings.py`:
- Around line 452-455: Update the zip call in the comparison loop over
parallel_embeddings and single_process_embeddings to pass strict=True,
preserving the preceding equal-length assertion and satisfying Ruff B905.
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Add persian.txt to the published Qdrant/bm25 artifact.
The resource is currently missing, so Persian model initialization will fail when it attempts to download the required stopword file.
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In `@fastembed/sparse/bm25.py` at line 37, Add persian.txt to the published
Qdrant/bm25 artifact and ensure the package-data or build configuration includes
it, so Persian BM25 initialization can retrieve the required stopword resource.
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Add strict=True to the zip() call.
pyproject.toml requires Python >=3.10.0, which supports zip(strict=...). The preceding assertion requires equal lengths, so strict mode preserves the intended behavior and resolves Ruff B905.
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[warning] 452-455: zip() without an explicit strict= parameter
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In `@tests/test_sparse_embeddings.py` around lines 452 - 455, Update the zip call
in the comparison loop over parallel_embeddings and single_process_embeddings to
pass strict=True, preserving the preceding equal-length assertion and satisfying
Ruff B905.
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What does this PR do?
Adds Persian (Farsi) language support to the BM25 sparse embedding implementation.
Previously,
Qdrant/bm25only supported the languages handled by the existing Snowball stemmer configuration. Attempting to initialize BM25 withlanguage="persian"resulted in an unsupported-language error.This PR adds Persian support with lightweight preprocessing:
persianto the supported BM25 languages.persian.txtmodel resource.disable_stemmerbehavior unchanged for currently supported languages.Testing
Added tests covering:
ي/كto Persianی/ک.The sparse embedding test suite passes successfully.
Persian stemming is intentionally not included in this change. A dedicated Persian stemming implementation can be considered separately to avoid introducing an additional NLP dependency and increasing the dependency footprint of FastEmbed.