edu.washington.cs.knowitall.nlp
Class ChunkedSentenceReader

java.lang.Object
  edu.washington.cs.knowitall.nlp.ChunkedSentenceReader

All Implemented Interfaces:

Iterable<ChunkedSentence>

public class ChunkedSentenceReader
extends Object
implements Iterable<ChunkedSentence>

A class that combines a SentenceExtractor with a SentenceChunker to read NpChunkedSentence objects from a BufferedReader. This object uses the SentenceExtractor to obtain String sentences from the input, and then chunks the sentences using the SentenceChunker object.

Author:

afader

Constructor Summary

ChunkedSentenceReader(Reader r)
Constructs a reader from r using the default SentenceExtractor and OpenNlpSentenceChunker.

ChunkedSentenceReader(Reader r, SentenceChunker sc)
Constructs a reader from r using the chunker sc and the default SentenceExtractor.

ChunkedSentenceReader(Reader r, SentenceExtractor se)
Constructs a reader from r using the sentence extractor se and the default OpenNlpSentenceChunker object.

ChunkedSentenceReader(Reader r, SentenceExtractor se, SentenceChunker sc)
Constructs a reader from r using the sentence extractor se and the sentence chunker sc.

Method Summary

void	addFilter(com.google.common.base.Predicate<ChunkedSentence> filter) This filter is used for sentences AFTER they have been chunked.
SentenceChunker	getSentenceChunker()
SentenceExtractor	getSentenceExtractor()
Iterable<ChunkedSentence>	getSentences()
ChunkedSentenceIterator	iterator()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

ChunkedSentenceReader

public ChunkedSentenceReader(Reader r,
                             SentenceExtractor se)
                      throws IOException

Constructs a reader from r using the sentence extractor se and the default OpenNlpSentenceChunker object.

Parameters:

r -

se -

Throws:

IOException

ChunkedSentenceReader

public ChunkedSentenceReader(Reader r,
                             SentenceChunker sc)
                      throws IOException

Constructs a reader from r using the chunker sc and the default SentenceExtractor.

Parameters:

r -

sc -

Throws:

IOException

ChunkedSentenceReader

public ChunkedSentenceReader(Reader r)
                      throws IOException

Constructs a reader from r using the default SentenceExtractor and OpenNlpSentenceChunker.

Parameters:

r -

Throws:

IOException

ChunkedSentenceReader

public ChunkedSentenceReader(Reader r,
                             SentenceExtractor se,
                             SentenceChunker sc)

Constructs a reader from r using the sentence extractor se and the sentence chunker sc.

Parameters:

r -

se -

sc -

Method Detail

addFilter

public void addFilter(com.google.common.base.Predicate<ChunkedSentence> filter)

This filter is used for sentences AFTER they have been chunked.

Parameters:

filter -

getSentenceExtractor

public SentenceExtractor getSentenceExtractor()

Returns:

the object used to extract sentences from strings.

getSentenceChunker

public SentenceChunker getSentenceChunker()

Returns:

the object used to chunk sentences.

iterator

public ChunkedSentenceIterator iterator()

Specified by:

iterator in interface Iterable<ChunkedSentence>

Returns:

an iterator over the sentences from the BufferedReader given during construction.

getSentences

public Iterable<ChunkedSentence> getSentences()

Returns:

an iterable object over the sentences from the BufferedReader given during construction.