ca.uottawa.balie
Class NamedEntityRecognition

java.lang.Object
  ca.uottawa.balie.NamedEntityRecognition

Direct Known Subclasses:

NamedEntityRecognitionBase, NamedEntityRecognitionNerf

public abstract class NamedEntityRecognition
extends java.lang.Object

NER abstract class

Author:

nadeaud

Constructor Summary

NamedEntityRecognition(LexiconOnDiskI pi_Lexicon, TokenList pi_TokenList)
Initialize NER on a tokenlist.

Method Summary

TokenList	GetTokenList() Get the resulting tokenlist.
void	RecognizeEntities() Process the token list and tag entities

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

NamedEntityRecognition

public NamedEntityRecognition(LexiconOnDiskI pi_Lexicon,
                              TokenList pi_TokenList)

Initialize NER on a tokenlist.

Parameters:

pi_Lexicon - lexicons used for NER. see LexiconOnDisk

pi_TokenList - a tokenlist (must be English)

Method Detail

RecognizeEntities

public void RecognizeEntities()

Process the token list and tag entities

GetTokenList

public TokenList GetTokenList()

Get the resulting tokenlist. Named entities are tagged if the method "RecognizeEntities" was called.

Returns:

The tokenlist.