edu.northwestern.at.morphadorner.corpuslinguistics.namerecognizer

Class DefaultNameRecognizer

java.lang.Object

edu.northwestern.at.utils.IsCloseableObject

edu.northwestern.at.morphadorner.corpuslinguistics.namerecognizer.AbstractNameRecognizer

edu.northwestern.at.morphadorner.corpuslinguistics.namerecognizer.DefaultNameRecognizer

All Implemented Interfaces:

UsesLexicon, NameRecognizer, UsesLogger

public class DefaultNameRecognizer
extends AbstractNameRecognizer
implements NameRecognizer, UsesLogger

DefaultNameRecognizer extracts proper names from text.

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class edu.northwestern.at.morphadorner.corpuslinguistics.namerecognizer.AbstractNameRecognizer

lexicon, logger, names, partOfSpeechTagger, partOfSpeechTags, sentenceSplitter, wordTokenizer

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
DefaultNameRecognizer() Create default name recognizer.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
<T extends AdornedWord> java.util.List<NamePosition>[]	findNamePositions(java.util.List<java.util.List<T>> sentences) Returns name positions in list of adorned word sentences.
<T extends AdornedWord> java.util.Set<java.lang.String>[]	findNames(java.util.List<java.util.List<T>> sentences) Returns names from list of adorned word sentences.
java.util.Set<java.lang.String>[]	findNames(java.lang.String text) Returns names from text.
<T extends AdornedWord> boolean	validateNamePosition(java.util.List<java.util.List<T>> sentences, NamePosition namePosition) Check name for validity.

Methods inherited from class edu.northwestern.at.morphadorner.corpuslinguistics.namerecognizer.AbstractNameRecognizer

close, getLexicon, getLogger, getPartOfSpeechTagger, namePositionToName, setLexicon, setLogger, setPartOfSpeechTagger

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface edu.northwestern.at.morphadorner.corpuslinguistics.namerecognizer.NameRecognizer

getLexicon, getPartOfSpeechTagger, setLexicon, setPartOfSpeechTagger

Methods inherited from interface edu.northwestern.at.utils.logger.UsesLogger

getLogger, setLogger

Constructor Detail

DefaultNameRecognizer

public DefaultNameRecognizer()

Create default name recognizer.

Method Detail

findNames

public java.util.Set<java.lang.String>[] findNames(java.lang.String text)

Returns names from text.

Specified by:

findNames in interface NameRecognizer

Specified by:

findNames in class AbstractNameRecognizer

Parameters:

text - The text from which to extract names.

Returns:

Array of Set of names and places as strings. [0] = Set of proper names. [1] = Set of places.

findNames

public <T extends AdornedWord> java.util.Set<java.lang.String>[] findNames(java.util.List<java.util.List<T>> sentences)

Returns names from list of adorned word sentences.

Specified by:

findNames in interface NameRecognizer

Specified by:

findNames in class AbstractNameRecognizer

Parameters:

sentences - The list of sentences of adorned words from which to extract names.

Returns:

Array of Set of names and places. [0] = Set of proper names. [1] = Set of places.

findNamePositions

public <T extends AdornedWord> java.util.List<NamePosition>[] findNamePositions(java.util.List<java.util.List<T>> sentences)

Returns name positions in list of adorned word sentences.

Specified by:

findNamePositions in interface NameRecognizer

Specified by:

findNamePositions in class AbstractNameRecognizer

Parameters:

sentences - The list of sentences of adorned words from which to extract names.

Returns:

List of name positions of names and places. [0] = Positions of proper names. [1] = Position of places.

validateNamePosition

public <T extends AdornedWord> boolean validateNamePosition(java.util.List<java.util.List<T>> sentences,
                                                   NamePosition namePosition)

Check name for validity.

Parameters:

sentences - The collection of sentences.

namePosition - The possibly updated name position.

Returns:

true if name is valid.