inamefinder.cs

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//Copyright (C) 2005 Richard J. Northedge
//
// This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
// modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
// License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
// version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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// License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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//This file is based on the NameFinder.java source file found in the
//original java implementation of OpenNLP.  That source file contains the following header:

//Copyright (C) 2003 Thomas Morton
// 
//This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
//modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
//License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
//version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
// 
//This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
//but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
//MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
//GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
// 
//You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
//License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
//Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.

using System;
using System.Collections;

namespace OpenNLP.Tools.NameFind
{
	/// <summary>
	/// The interface for name finders which provide name tags for a sequence of tokens.
	/// </summary>
	public interface INameFinder
	{
		/// <summary>
		/// Generates name tags for the given sequence returning the result in a list.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="tokens">
		/// a list of the tokens or words of the sequence.
		/// </param>
		/// <param name="previousTags">
		/// a mapping between tokens and outcomes from previous sentences. 
		/// </param>
		/// <returns>
		/// a list of chunk tags for each token in the sequence.
		/// </returns>
		ArrayList Find(ArrayList tokens, IDictionary previousTags);
			
		/// <summary>
		/// Generates name tags for the given sequence returning the result in an array.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="tokens">
		/// an array of the tokens or words of the sequence.
		/// </param>
		/// <param name="previousTags">
		/// a mapping between tokens and outcomes from previous sentences. 
		/// </param>
		/// <returns>
		/// an array of chunk tags for each token in the sequence.
		/// </returns>
		string[] Find(object[] tokens, IDictionary previousTags);
	}
}