opennlp.tools.chunker
Interface ChunkerContextGenerator

All Superinterfaces:

BeamSearchContextGenerator<String>

All Known Implementing Classes:

ChunkContextGenerator, DefaultChunkerContextGenerator

public interface ChunkerContextGenerator
extends BeamSearchContextGenerator<String>

Interface for the context generator used in syntactic chunking.

Method Summary

String[]

getContext(int i, String[] toks, String[] tags, String[] preds) Returns the contexts for chunking of the specified index.

Methods inherited from interface opennlp.tools.util.BeamSearchContextGenerator

getContext

Method Detail

getContext

String[] getContext(int i,
                    String[] toks,
                    String[] tags,
                    String[] preds)

Returns the contexts for chunking of the specified index.

Parameters:

i - The index of the token in the specified toks array for which the context should be constructed.

toks - The tokens of the sentence. The toString methods of these objects should return the token text.

tags - The POS tags for the the specified tokens.

preds - The previous decisions made in the taging of this sequence. Only indices less than i will be examined.

Returns:

An array of predictive contexts on which a model basis its decisions.