opennlp.tools.namefind
Interface DocumentNameFinder

public interface DocumentNameFinder

Name finding interface which processes an entire document allowing the name finder to use context from the entire document.

Author:

tsmorton

Method Summary

Span[][]

find(java.lang.String[][] document) Returns tokens span for the specified document of sentences and their tokens.

Method Detail

find

Span[][] find(java.lang.String[][] document)

Returns tokens span for the specified document of sentences and their tokens. Span start and end indices are relitive to the sentence they are in. For example, a span identifying a name consisting of the first and second word of the second sentence would be 0..2 and be referenced as spans[1][0].

Parameters:

document - An array of tokens for each sentence of a document.

Returns:

The token spans for each sentence of the specified document.