ca.uottawa.balie
Class NamedEntityAlias

java.lang.Object
  ca.uottawa.balie.NamedEntityAlias

public class NamedEntityAlias
extends java.lang.Object

NE alias object is a set of labels that represent the same entity

Author:

nadeaud

Constructor Summary

NamedEntityAlias(java.util.ArrayList<java.lang.String> pi_alBow, int pi_EntityIndex, int pi_NETagSetSize)
A concept (alias) that represents one or many named entity

Method Summary

void	Add(java.util.ArrayList<java.lang.String> pi_alBow, int pi_Index) Add an entity bag-of-word to this alias
java.util.ArrayList<java.lang.String>	Bow() Get entire BOW for this alias
NamedEntityType	DominantType()
java.util.ArrayList<java.lang.Integer>	Entities() Get list of indexes of entities
void	Merge(NamedEntityAlias pi_Alias) Merge aliases
void	SetDominantType(NamedEntityType pi_NE) Set the dominant type for this entity the dominant type is the preferred type to be applied to all elements of the alias
boolean	SignificantOverlap(java.util.ArrayList<java.lang.String> pi_Bow) Check if this alias and a bag-of-word have a significant overlap (at least half of words overlap)
java.lang.String	toString()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

NamedEntityAlias

public NamedEntityAlias(java.util.ArrayList<java.lang.String> pi_alBow,
                        int pi_EntityIndex,
                        int pi_NETagSetSize)

A concept (alias) that represents one or many named entity

Parameters:

pi_alBow - words that belongs to this alias

pi_EntityIndex - index of an entity (at least this entity is required to create an alias)

Method Detail

Add

public void Add(java.util.ArrayList<java.lang.String> pi_alBow,
                int pi_Index)

Add an entity bag-of-word to this alias

Parameters:

pi_alBow - Words of this entity

pi_Index - index of this entity

Merge

public void Merge(NamedEntityAlias pi_Alias)

Merge aliases

Parameters:

pi_Alias - alias to mege with

SignificantOverlap

public boolean SignificantOverlap(java.util.ArrayList<java.lang.String> pi_Bow)

Check if this alias and a bag-of-word have a significant overlap (at least half of words overlap)

Parameters:

pi_Bow - bow to check

Returns:

true if overlap

Entities

public java.util.ArrayList<java.lang.Integer> Entities()

Get list of indexes of entities

Returns:

list of indexes

Bow

public java.util.ArrayList<java.lang.String> Bow()

Get entire BOW for this alias

Returns:

the union of all BOW of all entities of this alias

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object

SetDominantType

public void SetDominantType(NamedEntityType pi_NE)

Set the dominant type for this entity the dominant type is the preferred type to be applied to all elements of the alias

Parameters:

pi_NE - a type (must contains ionly one primitive type)

DominantType

public NamedEntityType DominantType()

Returns:

the dominant type