edu.washington.cs.knowitall.nlp
Class OpenNlpChunkedSentenceParser

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

public class OpenNlpChunkedSentenceParser
extends Object

A utility class for "parsing" the output of the OpenNLP command line chunker. The command line chunker returns strings in this form:

[NP JFK/NNP] [VP was/VBD elected/VBN] [NP president/NN] [PP in/IN] [NP 1960/CD] ./.

This class converts that String representation into a ChunkedSentence object.

Author:

afader

Constructor Summary

OpenNlpChunkedSentenceParser()

Method Summary

boolean	attachOfs()
void	attachOfs(boolean attachOfs)
boolean	attachPossessives()
void	attachPossessives(boolean attachPossessives)
ChunkedSentence	parseSentence(String sent) Converts sent into a ChunkedSentence object.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

OpenNlpChunkedSentenceParser

public OpenNlpChunkedSentenceParser()

Method Detail

attachOfs

public boolean attachOfs()

Returns:

true if this object will attach NPs beginning with "of" with the previous NP.

attachPossessives

public boolean attachPossessives()

Returns:

true if this object will attach NPs beginning with the tag POS with the previous NP.

attachOfs

public void attachOfs(boolean attachOfs)

Parameters:

attachOfs -

attachPossessives

public void attachPossessives(boolean attachPossessives)

Parameters:

attachPossessives -

parseSentence

public ChunkedSentence parseSentence(String sent)
                              throws ParseException

Converts sent into a ChunkedSentence object.

Parameters:

sent -

Returns:

the chunked representation

Throws:

ParseException - if sent is malformed.