opennlp.tools.chunker
Interface Chunker

All Known Implementing Classes:
ChunkerME

public interface Chunker

The interface for chunkers which provide chunk tags for a sequence of tokens.


Method Summary
 List<String> chunk(List<String> toks, List<String> tags)
          Deprecated. please use chunk(String[], String[]) instead.
 String[] chunk(String[] toks, String[] tags)
          Generates chunk tags for the given sequence returning the result in an array.
 Sequence[] topKSequences(List<String> sentence, List<String> tags)
          Returns the top k chunk sequences for the specified sentence with the specified pos-tags
 Sequence[] topKSequences(String[] sentence, String[] tags, double minSequenceScore)
          Returns the top k chunk sequences for the specified sentence with the specified pos-tags
 

Method Detail

chunk

@Deprecated
List<String> chunk(List<String> toks,
                              List<String> tags)
Deprecated. please use chunk(String[], String[]) instead.

Generates chunk tags for the given sequence returning the result in a list.

Parameters:
toks - a list of the tokens or words of the sequence.
tags - a list of the pos tags of the sequence.
Returns:
a list of chunk tags for each token in the sequence.

chunk

String[] chunk(String[] toks,
               String[] tags)
Generates chunk tags for the given sequence returning the result in an array.

Parameters:
toks - an array of the tokens or words of the sequence.
tags - an array of the pos tags of the sequence.
Returns:
an array of chunk tags for each token in the sequence.

topKSequences

Sequence[] topKSequences(List<String> sentence,
                         List<String> tags)
Returns the top k chunk sequences for the specified sentence with the specified pos-tags

Parameters:
sentence - The tokens of the sentence.
tags - The pos-tags for the specified sentence.
Returns:
the top k chunk sequences for the specified sentence.

topKSequences

Sequence[] topKSequences(String[] sentence,
                         String[] tags,
                         double minSequenceScore)
Returns the top k chunk sequences for the specified sentence with the specified pos-tags

Parameters:
sentence - The tokens of the sentence.
tags - The pos-tags for the specified sentence.
Returns:
the top k chunk sequences for the specified sentence.


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