Package banner.postprocessing

Class ExtractAbbrev

java.lang.Object

banner.postprocessing.ExtractAbbrev

public class ExtractAbbrev
extends Object

This class was adapted from the BioText ExtractAbbrev.java software by Ariel S. Schwartz. See http://biotext.berkeley.edu/software.html.

The ExtractAbbrev class implements a simple algorithm for extraction of abbreviations and their definitions from biomedical text. Abbreviations (short forms) are extracted from the input file, and those abbreviations for which a definition (long form) is found are printed out, along with that definition, one per line. A file consisting of short-form/long-form pairs (tab separated) can be specified in tandem with the -testlist option for the purposes of evaluating the algorithm.

Version:

03/12/03

Author:

Ariel Schwartz

See Also:

A Simple Algorithm for Identifying Abbreviation Definitions in Biomedical Text A.S. Schwartz, M.A. Hearst; Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 8:451-462(2003) for a detailed description of the algorithm.

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Class	Description
class	ExtractAbbrev.AbbreviationPair

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
ExtractAbbrev()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Set<ExtractAbbrev.AbbreviationPair>	extractAbbrPairs(String text)
static void	main(String[] args)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

ExtractAbbrev

public ExtractAbbrev()

Method Detail

extractAbbrPairs

public Set<ExtractAbbrev.AbbreviationPair> extractAbbrPairs(String text)

main

public static void main(String[] args)
                 throws IOException

Throws:

IOException