ca.uottawa.balie
Class LexiconOnDisk

java.lang.Object
  ca.uottawa.balie.LexiconOnDisk

All Implemented Interfaces:

LexiconOnDiskI, java.io.Serializable

public class LexiconOnDisk
extends java.lang.Object
implements LexiconOnDiskI, java.io.Serializable

Lexicon loader for baseline NER

Author:

nadeaud

See Also:

Serialized Form

Nested Class Summary

static class

LexiconOnDisk.Lexicon Choice of lexicons

Constructor Summary

LexiconOnDisk(LexiconOnDisk.Lexicon pi_LexisonSet)
Read lexicons that reside in text files.

Method Summary

NamedEntityType	GetEntityType(java.lang.String pi_Word, boolean pi_bFuzzy) Get the entity type for this word.
NamedEntityType	GetEntityTypeForAllFuzzyVariants(java.lang.String pi_Word) Get the entity type for this word and all its fuzzy variants.
boolean	IsEntity(java.lang.String pi_Word, boolean pi_bFuzzy) Check if a given word is listed in a lexicon
NamedEntityTypeEnumI[]	Types()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

LexiconOnDisk

public LexiconOnDisk(LexiconOnDisk.Lexicon pi_LexisonSet)

Read lexicons that reside in text files.

Parameters:

pi_LexisonSet -

Method Detail

IsEntity

public boolean IsEntity(java.lang.String pi_Word,
                        boolean pi_bFuzzy)

Check if a given word is listed in a lexicon

Specified by:

IsEntity in interface LexiconOnDiskI

Parameters:

pi_Word - a word (can be a phase)

Returns:

True if the word belogns to one or more lexicon

GetEntityType

public NamedEntityType GetEntityType(java.lang.String pi_Word,
                                     boolean pi_bFuzzy)

Get the entity type for this word. Entity type is a bit flag made of one or many entity types (see TokenConsts for type list)

Specified by:

GetEntityType in interface LexiconOnDiskI

Parameters:

pi_Word -

Returns:

the type(s)

See Also:

TokenConsts

GetEntityTypeForAllFuzzyVariants

public NamedEntityType GetEntityTypeForAllFuzzyVariants(java.lang.String pi_Word)

Get the entity type for this word and all its fuzzy variants.

Parameters:

pi_Word -

Returns:

the type(s) of this words and all its variants.

Types

public NamedEntityTypeEnumI[] Types()

Specified by:

Types in interface LexiconOnDiskI