Package opennlp.tools.tokenize

Class TokenizerME

java.lang.Object

opennlp.tools.tokenize.TokenizerME

All Implemented Interfaces:

Tokenizer

public class TokenizerME
extends Object

A Tokenizer for converting raw text into separated tokens. It uses Maximum Entropy to make its decisions. The features are loosely based off of Jeff Reynar's UPenn thesis "Topic Segmentation: Algorithms and Applications.", which is available from his homepage: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~jcreynar.

This tokenizer needs a statistical model to tokenize a text which reproduces the tokenization observed in the training data used to create the model. The TokenizerModel class encapsulates the model and provides methods to create it from the binary representation.

A tokenizer instance is not thread safe. For each thread one tokenizer must be instantiated which can share one TokenizerModel instance to safe memory.

To train a new model {train(ObjectStream, TokenizerFactory, TrainingParameters) method can be used.

Sample usage:

InputStream modelIn;

...

TokenizerModel model = TokenizerModel(modelIn);

Tokenizer tokenizer = new TokenizerME(model);

String tokens[] = tokenizer.tokenize("A sentence to be tokenized.");

See Also:

Tokenizer, TokenizerModel, TokenSample

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
static Pattern	alphaNumeric	Deprecated. As of release 1.5.2, replaced by Factory.getAlphanumeric(String)
static String	NO_SPLIT	Constant indicates no token split.
static String	SPLIT	Constant indicates a token split.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
TokenizerME(String language)	Initializes the tokenizer by downloading a default model.
TokenizerME(TokenizerModel model)
TokenizerME(TokenizerModel model, Factory factory)	Deprecated. use TokenizerFactory to extend the Tokenizer functionality

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
double[]	getTokenProbabilities()	Returns the probabilities associated with the most recent calls to Tokenizer.tokenize(String) or tokenizePos(String).
void	setKeepNewLines(boolean keepNewLines)
String[]	tokenize(String s)	Splits a string into its atomic parts
Span[]	tokenizePos(String d)	Tokenizes the string.
static TokenizerModel	train(ObjectStream<TokenSample> samples, TokenizerFactory factory, TrainingParameters mlParams)	Trains a model for the TokenizerME.
boolean	useAlphaNumericOptimization()	Returns the value of the alpha-numeric optimization flag.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

SPLIT

public static final String SPLIT

Constant indicates a token split.

See Also:

Constant Field Values

NO_SPLIT

public static final String NO_SPLIT

Constant indicates no token split.

See Also:

Constant Field Values

alphaNumeric

@Deprecated
public static final Pattern alphaNumeric

Deprecated.

As of release 1.5.2, replaced by Factory.getAlphanumeric(String)

Alpha-Numeric Pattern

Constructor Detail

TokenizerME

public TokenizerME(String language)
            throws IOException

Initializes the tokenizer by downloading a default model.

Parameters:

language - The language of the tokenizer.

Throws:

IOException - Thrown if the model cannot be downloaded or saved.

TokenizerME

public TokenizerME(TokenizerModel model)

TokenizerME

public TokenizerME(TokenizerModel model,
                   Factory factory)

Deprecated.

use TokenizerFactory to extend the Tokenizer functionality

Method Detail

getTokenProbabilities

public double[] getTokenProbabilities()

Returns the probabilities associated with the most recent calls to Tokenizer.tokenize(String) or tokenizePos(String).

Returns:

probability for each token returned for the most recent call to tokenize. If not applicable an empty array is returned.

tokenizePos

public Span[] tokenizePos(String d)

Tokenizes the string.

Parameters:

d - The string to be tokenized.

Returns:

A span array containing individual tokens as elements.

train

public static TokenizerModel train(ObjectStream<TokenSample> samples,
                                   TokenizerFactory factory,
                                   TrainingParameters mlParams)
                            throws IOException

Trains a model for the TokenizerME.

Parameters:

samples - the samples used for the training.

factory - a TokenizerFactory to get resources from

mlParams - the machine learning train parameters

Returns:

the trained TokenizerModel

Throws:

IOException - it throws an IOException if an IOException is thrown during IO operations on a temp file which is created during training. Or if reading from the ObjectStream fails.

useAlphaNumericOptimization

public boolean useAlphaNumericOptimization()

Returns the value of the alpha-numeric optimization flag.

Returns:

true if the tokenizer should use alpha-numeric optimization, false otherwise.

tokenize

public String[] tokenize(String s)

Description copied from interface: Tokenizer

Splits a string into its atomic parts

Specified by:

tokenize in interface Tokenizer

Parameters:

s - The string to be tokenized.

Returns:

The String[] with the individual tokens as the array elements.

setKeepNewLines

public void setKeepNewLines(boolean keepNewLines)