opennlp.tools.namefind
Class NameSampleDataStream

java.lang.Object
  opennlp.tools.util.FilterObjectStream<String,NameSample>
      opennlp.tools.namefind.NameSampleDataStream

All Implemented Interfaces:

ObjectStream<NameSample>

public class NameSampleDataStream
extends FilterObjectStream<String,NameSample>

The NameSampleDataStream class converts tagged Strings provided by a DataStream to NameSample objects. It uses text that is is one-sentence per line and tokenized with names identified by <START> and <END> tags.

Field Summary

static String	END_TAG
static String	START_TAG
static String	START_TAG_PREFIX

Fields inherited from class opennlp.tools.util.FilterObjectStream

samples

Constructor Summary

NameSampleDataStream(ObjectStream<String> in)

Method Summary

NameSample

read() Returns the next object.

Methods inherited from class opennlp.tools.util.FilterObjectStream

close, reset

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

START_TAG_PREFIX

public static final String START_TAG_PREFIX

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Constant Field Values

START_TAG

public static final String START_TAG

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Constant Field Values

END_TAG

public static final String END_TAG

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Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

NameSampleDataStream

public NameSampleDataStream(ObjectStream<String> in)

Method Detail

read

public NameSample read()
                throws IOException

Description copied from interface: ObjectStream

Returns the next object. Calling this method repeatedly until it returns null will return each object from the underlying source exactly once.

Returns:

the next object or null to signal that the stream is exhausted

Throws:

IOException