ipostagger.cs

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//Copyright (C) 2005 Richard J. Northedge
//
// This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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//This file is based on the POSTagger.java source file found in the
//original java implementation of OpenNLP. 

using System;
using System.Collections;

namespace OpenNLP.Tools.PosTagger
{
	/// <summary> 
	/// The interface for part of speech taggers.
	/// </summary>
	public interface IPosTagger
	{
		/// <summary>
		/// Assigns the sentence of tokens pos tags.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="tokens">
		/// The sentence of tokens to be tagged.
		/// </param>
		/// <returns>
		/// a list of pos tags for each token provided in sentence.
		/// </returns>
		ArrayList Tag(ArrayList tokens);
			
		/// <summary>
		/// Assigns the sentence of tokens pos tags.</summary>
		/// <param name="tokens">
		/// The sentece of tokens to be tagged.
		/// </param>
		/// <returns>
		/// an array of pos tags for each token provided in sentence.
		/// </returns>
		string[] Tag(string[] tokens);
			
		/// <summary>
		/// Assigns the sentence of space-delimied tokens pos tags.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="sentence">
		/// The sentence of space-delimited tokens to be tagged.
		/// </param>
		/// <returns>
		/// a string of space-delimited pos tags for each token provided in sentence.
		/// </returns>
		string TagSentence(string sentence);
	}
}