edu.mit.jmwe.detect

Class Perfect

java.lang.Object

edu.mit.jmwe.detect.Perfect

All Implemented Interfaces:

IMWEDetector

public class Perfect
extends java.lang.Object
implements IMWEDetector

A detector that finds all of the MWEs in a sentence by using an answer key.

Sentences passed to this detector must implement IMarkedSentence, otherwise the detect(List) method will throw an exception.

Since:

jMWE 1.0.0

Version:

$Id: Perfect.java 356 2015-11-25 22:36:46Z markaf $

Author:

M.A. Finlayson

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
Perfect(IAnswerKey key) Constructs a new detector that uses the specified answer key

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.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

Perfect

public Perfect(IAnswerKey key)

Constructs a new detector that uses the specified answer key

Parameters:

key - the answer key to use, may not be null.

Throws:

java.lang.NullPointerException - if the specified answer key is null

Since:

jMWE 1.0.0

Method Detail

detect

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

Description copied from interface: IMWEDetector

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.

Specified by:

detect in interface IMWEDetector

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