eus.ixa.ixa.pipe.nerc

Interface NameFinder

All Known Implementing Classes:

DictionariesNameFinder, NumericNameFinder, StatisticalNameFinder

public interface NameFinder

Author:

ragerri

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.

Method Detail

getNames

List<Name> getNames(String[] tokens)

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

Parameters:

tokens - an array of the tokens or words

Returns:

a list of names

nercToSpans

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.

Parameters:

tokens - an array of tokenized text

Returns:

an list of Spans of Named Entities

getNamesFromSpans

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

Create a list of Name objects from spans and tokens.

Parameters:

neSpans - an array of Name Spans

tokens - an array of tokens, usually a sentence

Returns:

a list of name objects

clearAdaptiveData

void clearAdaptiveData()

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.