edu.mit.jmwe.detect

Interface IMWEDetector

All Known Subinterfaces:

IMWEDetectorFilter, IMWEDetectorResolver

All Known Implementing Classes:

Baseline, CompositeDetector, Consecutive, ConstrainLength, Continuous, Exhaustive, FilterByScore, InflectionLookup, InflectionPattern, InOrder, Leftmost, LeskAtLeast, LMLR, Longest, MoreFrequentAsMWE, NoInflection, NoProperNouns, Perfect, ProperNouns, ResolveByScore, SmallestVariance, StopWords, TrulyExhaustive

public interface IMWEDetector

A detector for multi-word expressions. Classes implementing this interface can be used to find the multi-word expressions in a sentence.

Since:

jMWE 1.0.0

Version:

$Id: IMWEDetector.java 308 2011-05-06 03:33:34Z markaf $

Author:

N. Kulkarni, M.A. Finlayson

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
<T extends IToken> java.util.List<IMWE<T>>	detect(java.util.List<T> sentence) Given a list of tokens, the detector searches for the MWEs in the list.

Method Detail

detect

<T extends IToken> java.util.List<IMWE<T>> detect(java.util.List<T> sentence)

Given a list of tokens, the detector searches for the MWEs in the list. It returns a set of IMWE objects representing these multi-word expressions. The method returns an empty list if no MWEs are found; the method should never return null.

Type Parameters:

T - the type of the tokens in the sentence

Parameters:

sentence - a sentence which the detector should search for multi-word expressions.

Returns:

a list of IMWE objects representing the multi-word expressions found in the sentence. Returns an empty list if no multi-word expressions are found; never returns null

Throws:

java.lang.NullPointerException - if the specified sentence is null, or contains null

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - if the specified sentence is empty

Since:

jMWE 1.0.0