mentionfinder.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.coref.mention;

/**
 *  Specifies the interface that Objects which determine the space of mentions for coreference should implement. 
 */
public interface MentionFinder {

  /** Specifies whether pre-nominal named-entities should be collected as mentions.
   * @param collectPrenominalNamedEntities true if pre-nominal named-entities should be collected; false otherwise. 
   */
  public void setPrenominalNamedEntityCollection(boolean collectPrenominalNamedEntities);
  /**
   * Reutrns whether this mention finder collects pre-nominal named-entities as mentions.
   * @return true if this mention finder collects pre-nominal named-entities as mentions
   */
  public boolean isPrenominalNamedEntityCollection();
  
  /**
   * Reutrns whether this mention finder collects coordinated noun phrases as mentions.
   * @return true if this mention finder collects coordinated noun phrases as mentions; false otherwise.
   */
  public boolean isCoordinatedNounPhraseCollection();
  
  /** Specifies whether coordinated noun phrases should be collected as mentions.
   * @param collectCoordinatedNounPhrases true if coordinated noun phrases should be collected; false otherwise. 
   */
  public void setCoordinatedNounPhraseCollection(boolean collectCoordinatedNounPhrases);

  /**
   * Returns an array of mentions.
   * @param parse A top level parse from which mentions are gathered.
   * @return an array of mentions which implement the <code>Extent</code> interface.
   */
  public Mention[] getMentions(Parse parse);

}