dragon.nlp.tool

Interface Tagger

All Known Implementing Classes:

BrillTagger, HeppleTagger, MedPostTagger

public interface Tagger

Interface of part speech of tagger

Copyright: Copyright (c) 2005

Company: IST, Drexel University

Version:

1.0

Author:

Davis Zhou

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static int	POS_ADJECTIVE
static int	POS_ADVERB
static int	POS_CC
static int	POS_DT
static int	POS_IN
static int	POS_NOUN
static int	POS_NUM
static int	POS_PRONOUN
static int	POS_VERB

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.

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POS_NOUN

static final int POS_NOUN

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POS_VERB

static final int POS_VERB

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POS_ADJECTIVE

static final int POS_ADJECTIVE

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POS_ADVERB

static final int POS_ADVERB

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POS_IN

static final int POS_IN

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POS_PRONOUN

static final int POS_PRONOUN

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POS_DT

static final int POS_DT

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POS_CC

static final int POS_CC

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POS_NUM

static final int POS_NUM

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Method Detail

tag

void tag(Sentence sent)

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.

Parameters:

sent - the sentence for tagging