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

Constructors

Constructor and Description
OpenNlpChunkedSentenceParser()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
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.