edu.washington.cs.knowitall.extractor
Class SentenceExtractor

java.lang.Object
  edu.washington.cs.knowitall.extractor.Extractor<String,String>
      edu.washington.cs.knowitall.extractor.SentenceExtractor

Direct Known Subclasses:

HtmlSentenceExtractor

public class SentenceExtractor
extends Extractor<String,String>

An Extractor object that extracts String sentences from a String. Is backed by an OpenNLP SentenceDetector object.

Author:

afader

Constructor Summary

SentenceExtractor()
Constructs a new SentenceExtractor object using the default OpenNLP SentenceDetector object, as returned by DefaultObjects.getDefaultSentenceDetector().

SentenceExtractor(opennlp.tools.sentdetect.SentenceDetector detector)
Constructs a new SentenceExtractor object using the given OpenNLP SentenceDetector object.

Method Summary

protected Collection<String>	extractCandidates(String source) Runs the OpenNLP SentenceDetector object on the given String source, and returns an Iterable object over the detected sentences.
opennlp.tools.sentdetect.SentenceDetector	getSentenceDetector()

Methods inherited from class edu.washington.cs.knowitall.extractor.Extractor

addMapper, compose, extract, getMappers

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

SentenceExtractor

public SentenceExtractor()
                  throws IOException

Constructs a new SentenceExtractor object using the default OpenNLP SentenceDetector object, as returned by DefaultObjects.getDefaultSentenceDetector().

Throws:

IOException

SentenceExtractor

public SentenceExtractor(opennlp.tools.sentdetect.SentenceDetector detector)

Constructs a new SentenceExtractor object using the given OpenNLP SentenceDetector object.

Parameters:

detector -

Method Detail

getSentenceDetector

public opennlp.tools.sentdetect.SentenceDetector getSentenceDetector()

Returns:

the OpenNLP SentenceDetector object.

extractCandidates

protected Collection<String> extractCandidates(String source)

Runs the OpenNLP SentenceDetector object on the given String source, and returns an Iterable object over the detected sentences.

Specified by:

extractCandidates in class Extractor<String,String>

Parameters:

source - the source to extract from.

Returns:

an iterable object over the candidate extractions.