Uses of Interface
com.aliasi.chunk.Chunking

Packages that use Chunking

Package	Description
com.aliasi.chunk	Classes for extracting meaningful chunks (spans) of text.
com.aliasi.crf	Classes and interfaces for conditional random fields.
com.aliasi.dict	Classes for handling dictionaries.
com.aliasi.sentences	Classes for sentence-boundary detection.
com.aliasi.test.unit.chunk
com.aliasi.tokenizer	Classes for tokenizing character sequences.

Uses of Chunking in com.aliasi.chunk

Classes in com.aliasi.chunk that implement Chunking

Modifier and Type	Class and Description
class	ChunkingImpl A ChunkingImpl provides a mutable, set-based implementation of the chunking interface.

Methods in com.aliasi.chunk that return Chunking

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Chunking	RegExChunker.chunk(char[] cs, int start, int end) Return the chunking of the specified character slice.
Chunking	RescoringChunker.chunk(char[] cs, int start, int end) Returns the first-best chunking for the specified character slice.
Chunking	HmmChunker.chunk(char[] cs, int start, int end) Returns a chunking of the specified character slice.
Chunking	Chunker.chunk(char[] cs, int start, int end) Return the chunking of the specified character slice.
Chunking	TokenShapeChunker.chunk(char[] cs, int start, int end) Return the set of named-entity chunks derived from the underlying decoder over the tokenization of the specified character slice.
Chunking	RegExChunker.chunk(CharSequence cSeq) Return the chunking of the specified character sequence.
Chunking	RescoringChunker.chunk(CharSequence cSeq) Returns the first-best chunking for the specified character sequence.
Chunking	HmmChunker.chunk(CharSequence cSeq) Returns a chunking of the specified character sequence.
Chunking	Chunker.chunk(CharSequence cSeq) Return the chunking of the specified character sequence.
Chunking	TokenShapeChunker.chunk(CharSequence cSeq) Return the set of named-entity chunks derived from the uderlying decoder over the tokenization of the specified character sequence.
static Chunking	ChunkingImpl.merge(Chunking chunking1, Chunking chunking2) Return the result of combining two chunkings into a single non-overlapping chunking.
Chunking	IoTagChunkCodec.toChunking(StringTagging tagging)
Chunking	TagChunkCodec.toChunking(StringTagging tagging) Return the result of decoding the specified tagging into a chunking.
Chunking	BioTagChunkCodec.toChunking(StringTagging tagging)

Methods in com.aliasi.chunk that return types with arguments of type Chunking

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Iterator<ScoredObject<Chunking>>	RescoringChunker.nBest(char[] cs, int start, int end, int maxNBest) Returns the n-best chunkings of the specified character slice.
Iterator<ScoredObject<Chunking>>	HmmChunker.nBest(char[] cs, int start, int end, int maxNBest) Returns a size-bounded iterator over scored objects with joint probability estimates of tags and tokens as scores and chunkings as objects.
Iterator<ScoredObject<Chunking>>	NBestChunker.nBest(char[] cs, int start, int end, int maxNBest) Return the scored chunkings of the specified character sequence in order as an iterator in order of score.
Iterator<ScoredObject<Chunking>>	HmmChunker.nBestConditional(char[] cs, int start, int end, int maxNBest) Returns a size-bounded iterator over scored objects with conditional probability estimates of tags and tokens as scores and chunkings as objects.
static ObjectHandler<Chunking>	TagChunkCodecAdapters.stringTaggingToChunking(TagChunkCodec codec, ObjectHandler<StringTagging> handler) Return the chunking handler that converts chunkings to taggings using the specified codec.
static ObjectHandler<Chunking>	TagChunkCodecAdapters.taggingToChunking(TagChunkCodec codec, ObjectHandler<Tagging<String>> handler) Return the chunking handler that converts chunkings to simple taggings using the specified codec.

Methods in com.aliasi.chunk with parameters of type Chunking

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	ChunkingEvaluation.addCase(Chunking referenceChunking, Chunking responseChunking) Add an evaluation case consisting of a reference chunk set and a response chunk set.
static boolean	ChunkingImpl.equal(Chunking chunking1, Chunking chunking2) Returns true if the specified chunkings are equal.
void	ChunkerEvaluator.handle(Chunking referenceChunking) Handle the specified reference chunking.
void	TrainTokenShapeChunker.handle(Chunking chunking) Add the specified chunking as a training event.
void	CharLmHmmChunker.handle(Chunking chunking) Handle the specified chunking by tokenizing it, assigning tags and training the underlying hidden Markov model.
void	CharLmRescoringChunker.handle(Chunking chunking) Trains this chunker with the specified chunking.
static int	ChunkingImpl.hashCode(Chunking chunking) Returns the hash code for the specified chunking.
boolean	TagChunkCodec.isEncodable(Chunking chunking) Returns true if the specified chunking may be encoded as a tagging then decoded back to the original chunking accurately.
static Chunking	ChunkingImpl.merge(Chunking chunking1, Chunking chunking2) Return the result of combining two chunkings into a single non-overlapping chunking.
abstract double	RescoringChunker.rescore(Chunking chunking) Returns the score for a chunking.
double	AbstractCharLmRescoringChunker.rescore(Chunking chunking) Performs rescoring of the base chunking output using character language models.
StringTagging	IoTagChunkCodec.toStringTagging(Chunking chunking)
StringTagging	TagChunkCodec.toStringTagging(Chunking chunking) Return the string tagging that fully encodes the specified chunking.
StringTagging	BioTagChunkCodec.toStringTagging(Chunking chunking)
Tagging<String>	IoTagChunkCodec.toTagging(Chunking chunking)
Tagging<String>	TagChunkCodec.toTagging(Chunking chunking) Return the tagging that partially encodes the specified chunking.
Tagging<String>	BioTagChunkCodec.toTagging(Chunking chunking)

Method parameters in com.aliasi.chunk with type arguments of type Chunking

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static ObjectHandler<StringTagging>	TagChunkCodecAdapters.chunkingToStringTagging(TagChunkCodec codec, ObjectHandler<Chunking> handler) Return the string tagging handler that converts string taggings to chunkings.
static ObjectHandler<Tagging<String>>	TagChunkCodecAdapters.chunkingToTagging(TagChunkCodec codec, ObjectHandler<Chunking> handler) Returns the tagging handler that converts taggings to chunkings using the specified codec.

Uses of Chunking in com.aliasi.crf

Methods in com.aliasi.crf that return Chunking

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Chunking	ChainCrfChunker.chunk(char[] cs, int start, int end)
Chunking	ChainCrfChunker.chunk(CharSequence cSeq)

Methods in com.aliasi.crf that return types with arguments of type Chunking

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Iterator<ScoredObject<Chunking>>	ChainCrfChunker.nBest(char[] cs, int start, int end, int maxResults)
Iterator<ScoredObject<Chunking>>	ChainCrfChunker.nBestConditional(char[] cs, int start, int end, int maxResults) Returns an iterator over n-best chunkings with scores normalized to conditional probabilities of the output given the input string slice.

Method parameters in com.aliasi.crf with type arguments of type Chunking

Modifier and Type

Method and Description

static ChainCrfChunker

ChainCrfChunker.estimate(Corpus<ObjectHandler<Chunking>> chunkingCorpus, TagChunkCodec codec, TokenizerFactory tokenizerFactory, ChainCrfFeatureExtractor<String> featureExtractor, boolean addInterceptFeature, int minFeatureCount, boolean cacheFeatureVectors, RegressionPrior prior, int priorBlockSize, AnnealingSchedule annealingSchedule, double minImprovement, int minEpochs, int maxEpochs, Reporter reporter) Return the chain CRF-based chunker estimated from the specified corpus, which is converted to a tagging corpus using the specified coder/decoder and tokenizer factory, then passed to the chain CRF estimate method along with the rest of the arguments.

Uses of Chunking in com.aliasi.dict

Methods in com.aliasi.dict that return Chunking

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Chunking	ExactDictionaryChunker.chunk(char[] cs, int start, int end) Returns the chunking for the specified character slice.
Chunking	ApproxDictionaryChunker.chunk(char[] cs, int start, int end) Return the approximate dictionary-based chunking for the specified character sequence.
Chunking	ExactDictionaryChunker.chunk(CharSequence cSeq) Returns the chunking for the specified character sequence.
Chunking	ApproxDictionaryChunker.chunk(CharSequence cSeq) Return the approximate dictionary-based chunking for the specified character sequence.

Uses of Chunking in com.aliasi.sentences

Methods in com.aliasi.sentences that return Chunking

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Chunking	SentenceChunker.chunk(char[] cs, int start, int end) Return the chunking derived from the underlying sentence model over the tokenization of the specified character slice.
Chunking	SentenceChunker.chunk(CharSequence cSeq) Return the chunking derived from the underlying sentence model over the tokenization of the specified character slice.

Methods in com.aliasi.sentences with parameters of type Chunking

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	SentenceEvaluation.addCase(Chunking referenceChunking, Chunking responseChunking) Add the case corresponding to the specified reference and response chunkings.
void	SentenceEvaluator.handle(Chunking refChunking) Handle the specified reference chunking by extracting its character sequence, producing a response chunking from the contained sentence chunker, and adding the reference and result to the evaluation.
static String	SentenceEvaluation.sentenceCaseToString(Chunking referenceChunking, Chunking responseChunking, int lineLength) Given a pair of reference and response chunkings, returns a string showing the underlying character sequence chunking pair, annotated with the sentence boundaries from each chunking, with linebreaks inserted every lineLength characters.

Uses of Chunking in com.aliasi.test.unit.chunk

Methods in com.aliasi.test.unit.chunk with parameters of type Chunking

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static void	CharLmHmmChunkerTest.assertChunking(Chunker chunker, Chunking expectedChunking)
static <C extends Chunker & Compilable> void	CharLmHmmChunkerTest.assertChunkingCompile(C chunkerEstimator, Chunking expectedChunking)
static void	CharLmHmmChunkerTest.assertEqualsChunking(Chunking expectedChunking, Chunking chunking)

Uses of Chunking in com.aliasi.tokenizer

Methods in com.aliasi.tokenizer that return Chunking

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Chunking	TokenChunker.chunk(char[] cs, int start, int end) Return the chunking produced by tokenizing the specified character array slice.
Chunking	TokenChunker.chunk(CharSequence cSeq) Return the chunking produced by tokenizing the specified character sequence.