dragon.nlp

Interface DocumentParser

All Known Implementing Classes:

CnSimpleDocumentParser, EngDocumentParser

public interface DocumentParser

Parse a text document into paragraphs, sentences and words

Copyright: Copyright (c) 2005

Company: IST, Drexel University

Version:

1.0

Author:

Davis Zhou

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Document	parse(String content) Parses a text into a Document object
Paragraph	parseParagraph(String content) Parses a text into a Paragraph object
Sentence	parseSentence(String content) Parses a text into a Sentence object
ArrayList	parseTokens(String content) Prases a text into a sequence of tokens.

Method Detail

parse

Document parse(String content)

Parses a text into a Document object

Parameters:

content - the text for parsing

Returns:

a document object

parseParagraph

Paragraph parseParagraph(String content)

Parses a text into a Paragraph object

Parameters:

content - the text for parsing

Returns:

a paragraph object

parseSentence

Sentence parseSentence(String content)

Parses a text into a Sentence object

Parameters:

content - the text for parsing

Returns:

a Sentence object

parseTokens

ArrayList parseTokens(String content)

Prases a text into a sequence of tokens. Tokens are in the original format and order. No stem is applied. Duplicated tokens are not merged.

Parameters:

content - the text for parsing

Returns:

a list of tokens in the format of String