opennlp.tools.coref.mention
Interface MentionFinder

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractMentionFinder, PTBMentionFinder, ShallowParseMentionFinder

public interface MentionFinder

Specifies the interface that Objects which determine the space of mentions for coreference should implement.

Method Summary

Mention[]	getMentions(Parse parse) Returns an array of mentions.
boolean	isCoordinatedNounPhraseCollection() Returns whether this mention finder collects coordinated noun phrases as mentions.
boolean	isPrenominalNamedEntityCollection() Returns whether this mention finder collects pre-nominal named-entities as mentions.
void	setCoordinatedNounPhraseCollection(boolean collectCoordinatedNounPhrases) Specifies whether coordinated noun phrases should be collected as mentions.
void	setPrenominalNamedEntityCollection(boolean collectPrenominalNamedEntities) Specifies whether pre-nominal named-entities should be collected as mentions.

Method Detail

setPrenominalNamedEntityCollection

void setPrenominalNamedEntityCollection(boolean collectPrenominalNamedEntities)

Specifies whether pre-nominal named-entities should be collected as mentions.

Parameters:

collectPrenominalNamedEntities - true if pre-nominal named-entities should be collected; false otherwise.

isPrenominalNamedEntityCollection

boolean isPrenominalNamedEntityCollection()

Returns whether this mention finder collects pre-nominal named-entities as mentions.

Returns:

true if this mention finder collects pre-nominal named-entities as mentions

isCoordinatedNounPhraseCollection

boolean isCoordinatedNounPhraseCollection()

Returns whether this mention finder collects coordinated noun phrases as mentions.

Returns:

true if this mention finder collects coordinated noun phrases as mentions; false otherwise.

setCoordinatedNounPhraseCollection

void setCoordinatedNounPhraseCollection(boolean collectCoordinatedNounPhrases)

Specifies whether coordinated noun phrases should be collected as mentions.

Parameters:

collectCoordinatedNounPhrases - true if coordinated noun phrases should be collected; false otherwise.

getMentions

Mention[] getMentions(Parse parse)

Returns an array of mentions.

Parameters:

parse - A top level parse from which mentions are gathered.

Returns:

an array of mentions which implement the Extent interface.