eus.ixa.ixa.pipe.nerc

Class NumericNameFinder

java.lang.Object

eus.ixa.ixa.pipe.nerc.NumericNameFinder

All Implemented Interfaces:

NameFinder

public class NumericNameFinder
extends Object
implements NameFinder

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
NumericNameFinder(BufferedReader breader, NameFactory aNameFactory)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	clearAdaptiveData() Forget all adaptive data which was collected during previous calls to one of the find methods.
List<Name>	getNames(String[] tokens) Generates Name objects for the given sequence, typically a sentence.
List<Name>	getNamesFromSpans(opennlp.tools.util.Span[] neSpans, String[] tokens) Create a list of Name objects from spans and tokens.
opennlp.tools.util.Span[]	nercToSpans(String[] tokens) This method receives as input an array of tokenized text and returns the Spans of the detected and classified Named Entities.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

NumericNameFinder

public NumericNameFinder(BufferedReader breader,
                         NameFactory aNameFactory)

Method Detail

getNames

public List<Name> getNames(String[] tokens)

Description copied from interface: NameFinder

Generates Name objects for the given sequence, typically a sentence.

Specified by:

getNames in interface NameFinder

Parameters:

tokens - an array of the tokens or words

Returns:

a list of names

nercToSpans

public opennlp.tools.util.Span[] nercToSpans(String[] tokens)

Description copied from interface: NameFinder

This method receives as input an array of tokenized text and returns the Spans of the detected and classified Named Entities.

Specified by:

nercToSpans in interface NameFinder

Parameters:

tokens - an array of tokenized text

Returns:

an list of Spans of Named Entities

getNamesFromSpans

public List<Name> getNamesFromSpans(opennlp.tools.util.Span[] neSpans,
                                    String[] tokens)

Description copied from interface: NameFinder

Create a list of Name objects from spans and tokens.

Specified by:

getNamesFromSpans in interface NameFinder

Parameters:

neSpans - an array of Name Spans

tokens - an array of tokens, usually a sentence

Returns:

a list of name objects

clearAdaptiveData

public void clearAdaptiveData()

Description copied from interface: NameFinder

Forget all adaptive data which was collected during previous calls to one of the find methods. This method is typically called at the end of a document.

Specified by:

clearAdaptiveData in interface NameFinder