parserchunker.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.parser;

import java.util.List;

import opennlp.tools.chunker.Chunker;
import opennlp.tools.util.Sequence;

/**
 * Interface that a chunker used with the parser should implement. 
 */
public interface ParserChunker extends Chunker {
  /**
   * Returns the top k chunk sequences for the specified sentence with the specified pos-tags   
   * @param sentence The tokens of the sentence.
   * @param tags The pos-tags for the specified sentence.
   * @return the top k chunk sequences for the specified sentence.
   */
  public Sequence[] topKSequences(List sentence, List tags);
  
  /**
   * Returns the top k chunk sequences for the specified sentence with the specified pos-tags   
   * @param sentence The tokens of the sentence.
   * @param tags The pos-tags for the specified sentence.
   * @return the top k chunk sequences for the specified sentence.
   */
  public Sequence[] topKSequences(String[] sentence, String[] tags, double minSequenceScore);
}