edu.northwestern.at.morphadorner.corpuslinguistics.postagger

Interface PartOfSpeechRetagger

All Superinterfaces:

PartOfSpeechTagger

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultPartOfSpeechRetagger, HeppleTagger, IRetagger, NoopRetagger, ProperNounRetagger, SimpleRuleBasedTagger, TCPRetagger

public interface PartOfSpeechRetagger
extends PartOfSpeechTagger

Interface for a Part of Speech retagger.

A retagger takes the output of another tagger and retags the words. Normally this is used to apply fixup rules to the output of a statistical tagger.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	getCanAddOrDeleteWords() Can retagger add or delete words in the original sentence?
<T extends AdornedWord> java.util.List<T>	retagSentence(java.util.List<T> sentence) Retag a sentence.
void	setCanAddOrDeleteWords(boolean canAddOrDeleteWords) Can retagger add or delete words in the original sentence?

Methods inherited from interface edu.northwestern.at.morphadorner.corpuslinguistics.postagger.PartOfSpeechTagger

clearRuleCorrections, getContextualSmoother, getLexicalSmoother, getLexicon, getLexicon, getPartOfSpeechGuesser, getPostTokenizer, getRetagger, getRuleCorrections, getTagCount, getTagsForWord, getTransitionMatrix, incrementRuleCorrections, retagWords, setContextRules, setContextualSmoother, setLexicalRules, setLexicalSmoother, setLexicon, setPartOfSpeechGuesser, setPostTokenizer, setRetagger, setTransitionMatrix, tagAdornedWordList, tagAdornedWordSentence, tagAdornedWordSentences, tagSentence, tagSentences, usesContextRules, usesLexicalRules, usesTransitionProbabilities

Method Detail

retagSentence

<T extends AdornedWord> java.util.List<T> retagSentence(java.util.List<T> sentence)

Retag a sentence.

Parameters:

sentence - The sentence as an AdornedWord .

Returns:

The sentence with words retagged.

getCanAddOrDeleteWords

boolean getCanAddOrDeleteWords()

Can retagger add or delete words in the original sentence?

Returns:

true if retagger can add or delete words.

setCanAddOrDeleteWords

void setCanAddOrDeleteWords(boolean canAddOrDeleteWords)

Can retagger add or delete words in the original sentence?

Parameters:

canAddOrDeleteWords - true if retagger can add or delete words.