edu.washington.cs.knowitall.normalization
Class VerbalRelationNormalizer

java.lang.Object
  edu.washington.cs.knowitall.normalization.VerbalRelationNormalizer

All Implemented Interfaces:

FieldNormalizer

public class VerbalRelationNormalizer
extends Object
implements FieldNormalizer

A class that can be used to normalize verbal relation strings. It performs the following normalization procedure on a ChunkedExtraction object:

• Removes inflection in each token using the Morpha class.
• Removes auxiliary verbs, determiners, adjectives, and adverbs.

Author:

afader

Constructor Summary

VerbalRelationNormalizer()
Constructs a new instance.

Method Summary

NormalizedField	normalizeField(ChunkedExtraction field) Normalizes the given field.
void	stripBeAdj(boolean value) If set to true, then will not remove adjectives in phrases like "is happy about".

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

VerbalRelationNormalizer

public VerbalRelationNormalizer()

Constructs a new instance.

Method Detail

stripBeAdj

public void stripBeAdj(boolean value)

If set to true, then will not remove adjectives in phrases like "is happy about".

Parameters:

value -

normalizeField

public NormalizedField normalizeField(ChunkedExtraction field)

Normalizes the given field.

Specified by:

normalizeField in interface FieldNormalizer

Returns:

a normalized version of the given field