dragon.nlp.tool

Class MedPostTagger

java.lang.Object

dragon.nlp.tool.MedPostTagger

All Implemented Interfaces:

Tagger

public class MedPostTagger
extends Object
implements Tagger

MedPost tagger adopted from gov.nih.nlm.nls.mps.POSTagger

Copyright: Copyright (c) 2005

Company: IST, Drexel University

Version:

1.0

Author:

Davis Zhou

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface dragon.nlp.tool.Tagger

POS_ADJECTIVE, POS_ADVERB, POS_CC, POS_DT, POS_IN, POS_NOUN, POS_NUM, POS_PRONOUN, POS_VERB

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
MedPostTagger()
MedPostTagger(String workDir)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	tag(Sentence sent) This method will tag the part of speech of all words in the sentence.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

MedPostTagger

public MedPostTagger(String workDir)

MedPostTagger

public MedPostTagger()

Method Detail

tag

public void tag(Sentence sent)

Description copied from interface: Tagger

This method will tag the part of speech of all words in the sentence. One can call the method getPOSIndex and getPOSLabel to get the part of speech of a word. Different taggers may use different tag names. For this reason, it is required to translate the tag names to a numerical POS label called POSIndex.

Specified by:

tag in interface Tagger

Parameters:

sent - the sentence for tagging