edu.nyu.jet.ne

Class NamedEntityUtil

java.lang.Object

edu.nyu.jet.ne.NamedEntityUtil

public class NamedEntityUtil
extends Object

Utility methods for the Extended Named Entity annotator.

Author:

Akira Oda

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
NamedEntityUtil()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static void	packNamedEntity(Document doc, Span span, String system) create ENAMEX annotations from the NE_INTERNAL annotations used internally by the Extended Named Entity annotator.
static void	packNamedEntity(Document doc, String system)
static void	splitToNamedEntity(Document doc)
static void	splitToNamedEntity(Document doc, Span span) create NE_INTERNAL annotations for use by the Extended Named Entity annotator.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

NamedEntityUtil

public NamedEntityUtil()

Method Detail

splitToNamedEntity

public static void splitToNamedEntity(Document doc,
                      Span span)

create NE_INTERNAL annotations for use by the Extended Named Entity annotator. One annotation is created for each token in span. Information from existing 'tagger' and 'ENAMEX' annotations is captured in the 'pos' and 'categories' features on the NE_INTERNAL annotation. Existing ENAMEX annotations are deleted.

Parameters:

doc - document containing annotations

span - annotations within this span are processed

splitToNamedEntity

public static void splitToNamedEntity(Document doc)

packNamedEntity

public static void packNamedEntity(Document doc,
                   Span span,
                   String system)

create ENAMEX annotations from the NE_INTERNAL annotations used internally by the Extended Named Entity annotator.

Parameters:

doc - document containing annotations

span - annotations within this span are processed

system - named entity system name

packNamedEntity

public static void packNamedEntity(Document doc,
                   String system)