edu.columbia.cs.ref.tool.chunker.impl
Class OpenNLPChunker

java.lang.Object
  edu.columbia.cs.ref.tool.chunker.impl.OpenNLPChunker

All Implemented Interfaces:

Chunker

public class OpenNLPChunker
extends java.lang.Object
implements Chunker

The Class OpenNLPChunker is an implementation of a Chunker that uses the ChunkerME models from OpenNLP.

Since:

2011-09-27

Version:

0.1

Author:

Pablo Barrio, Goncalo Simoes

Constructor Summary

OpenNLPChunker(java.lang.String path)
Instantiates a new OpenNLP chunker.

Method Summary

java.lang.String[]

chunk(java.lang.String[] toks, java.lang.String[] tags) Given a tokenization and the coresponding POS tags, it returns the chunking tags for each token

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

OpenNLPChunker

public OpenNLPChunker(java.lang.String path)

Instantiates a new OpenNLP chunker.

Parameters:

path - the path to the model to be used.

Method Detail

chunk

public java.lang.String[] chunk(java.lang.String[] toks,
                                java.lang.String[] tags)

Description copied from interface: Chunker

Given a tokenization and the coresponding POS tags, it returns the chunking tags for each token

Specified by:

chunk in interface Chunker

Parameters:

toks - the tokenization of a sentence

tags - the POS tags of a sentence

Returns:

the chunking tags