Package banner.normalization

Class Gazetteer

java.lang.Object

banner.normalization.Gazetteer

public class Gazetteer
extends Object

A Gazetteer allows read in a list of Entitys and their associated EntityNames from a file. These can also be re-written to a file to simplify loading at a later time.

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Class	Description
static interface	Gazetteer.EntityFilter

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
Gazetteer()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
protected void	addEntity(Entity entity)
Set<Entity>	getEntities()
Entity	getEntity(String id)
void	load(Tokenizer tokenizer, EntityType type, String filename)
void	load(Tokenizer tokenizer, String namesFilename)
void	load(Tokenizer tokenizer, String namesFilename, Gazetteer.EntityFilter entityFilter)
void	write(String namesFilename)	A gazetteer is written as two parts, one contains the Type, ID and EntityNames and the second contains the entity relationships

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

Gazetteer

public Gazetteer()

Method Detail

load

public void load(Tokenizer tokenizer,
                 EntityType type,
                 String filename)
          throws IOException

Throws:

IOException

load

public void load(Tokenizer tokenizer,
                 String namesFilename)
          throws IOException

Throws:

IOException

load

public void load(Tokenizer tokenizer,
                 String namesFilename,
                 Gazetteer.EntityFilter entityFilter)
          throws IOException

Throws:

IOException

addEntity

protected void addEntity(Entity entity)

getEntity

public Entity getEntity(String id)

getEntities

public Set<Entity> getEntities()

write

public void write(String namesFilename)
           throws IOException

A gazetteer is written as two parts, one contains the Type, ID and EntityNames and the second contains the entity relationships

Parameters:

type -

namesFilename -

relationshipFilename -

Throws:

IOException