chunker.java

自然语言处理领域的一个开发包

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//Copyright (C) 2003 Thomas Morton
// 
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package opennlp.tools.chunker;

import java.util.List;

/**
 * The interface for chunkers which provide chunk tags for a sequence of tokens.
 */
public interface Chunker {
  
  /** Generates chunk tags for the given sequence returning the result in a list.
   * @param toks a list of the tokens or words of the sequence.
   * @param tags a list of the pos tags of the sequence.
   * @return a list of chunk tags for each token in the sequence.
   */
  public List chunk(List toks, List tags);
  
  /** Generates chunk tags for the given sequence returning the result in an array.
   * @param toks an array of the tokens or words of the sequence.
   * @param tags an array of the pos tags of the sequence.
   * @return an array of chunk tags for each token in the sequence.
   */
  public String[] chunk(Object[] toks, String tags[]);
}