com.aliasi.coref
Class EnglishMentionFactory

java.lang.Object
  com.aliasi.coref.AbstractMentionFactory
      com.aliasi.coref.EnglishMentionFactory

All Implemented Interfaces:

MentionFactory

public class EnglishMentionFactory
extends AbstractMentionFactory

A mention factory for English phrases. Defines genders and honorifics in lists, which are accessible to other modules.

Since:

LingPipe1.0

Version:

3.9

Author:

Bob Carpenter

Field Summary

static String	FEMALE_GENDER The gender for females.
static Set<String>	FEMALE_HONORIFICS The set of female honorifics.
static Set<String>	HONORIFICS The complete set of male, female, and generic honorifics.
static String	MALE_GENDER The gender for males.
static Set<String>	MALE_HONORIFICS The set of male honorifics.
static String	NEUTER_GENDER The gender for neuters.

Constructor Summary

EnglishMentionFactory()
Constructs a new English mention factory.

Method Summary

String	gender(String entityType) Returns a string rerpesenting the gender entities with the specified entity type.
boolean	isHonorific(String normalizedToken) Returns true if the specified token is an honorific.
boolean	isPronominal(String entityType) Returns true if the specified entity type is a pronominal type.
String	normalizeToken(String token) Returns a normalized version of the specified token.

Methods inherited from class com.aliasi.coref.AbstractMentionFactory

create, promote

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

MALE_GENDER

public static final String MALE_GENDER

The gender for males.

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Constant Field Values

FEMALE_GENDER

public static final String FEMALE_GENDER

The gender for females.

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Constant Field Values

NEUTER_GENDER

public static final String NEUTER_GENDER

The gender for neuters.

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Constant Field Values

MALE_HONORIFICS

public static final Set<String> MALE_HONORIFICS

The set of male honorifics.

FEMALE_HONORIFICS

public static final Set<String> FEMALE_HONORIFICS

The set of female honorifics.

HONORIFICS

public static final Set<String> HONORIFICS

The complete set of male, female, and generic honorifics.

Constructor Detail

EnglishMentionFactory

public EnglishMentionFactory()

Constructs a new English mention factory.

Method Detail

isHonorific

public boolean isHonorific(String normalizedToken)

Description copied from class: AbstractMentionFactory

Returns true if the specified token is an honorific.

Specified by:

isHonorific in class AbstractMentionFactory

Parameters:

normalizedToken - Token to test.

Returns:

true if the specified token is an honorific.

isPronominal

public boolean isPronominal(String entityType)

Returns true if the specified entity type is a pronominal type.

Specified by:

isPronominal in class AbstractMentionFactory

Parameters:

entityType - Type of entity to test.

Returns:

true if the specified entity type is pronominal.

normalizeToken

public String normalizeToken(String token)

Returns a normalized version of the specified token. Normalization returns a lowercased version of tokens, or null if the token is entirely punctuation.

Specified by:

normalizeToken in class AbstractMentionFactory

Parameters:

token - Token to normalize.

Returns:

Normalized version of token.

gender

public String gender(String entityType)

Returns a string rerpesenting the gender entities with the specified entity type.

Specified by:

gender in class AbstractMentionFactory

Parameters:

entityType - Entity type from which to extract gender.

Returns:

Gender corresponding to the specified entity type.