edu.mit.jmwe.detect
Class NoProperNouns

java.lang.Object
  extended by edu.mit.jmwe.detect.HasMWEDetector
      extended by edu.mit.jmwe.detect.NoProperNouns
All Implemented Interfaces:
IHasMWEDetector, IMWEDetector, IMWEDetectorFilter

public class NoProperNouns
extends HasMWEDetector
implements IMWEDetectorFilter

A detector that filters all proper noun MWEs from the results of its backing detector.

Since:
jMWE 1.0.0
Version:
$Id: NoProperNouns.java 599 2011-05-06 03:53:23Z markaf $
Author:
M.A. Finlayson

Constructor Summary
NoProperNouns(IMWEDetector detector)
          Constructs the detector from the given backing detector.
 
Method Summary
<T extends IToken>
List<IMWE<T>>
detect(List<T> sentence)
          Given a list of tokens, the detector searches for the MWEs in the list.
 
Methods inherited from class edu.mit.jmwe.detect.HasMWEDetector
getWrappedDetector
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait
 
Methods inherited from interface edu.mit.jmwe.detect.IHasMWEDetector
getWrappedDetector
 

Constructor Detail

NoProperNouns

public NoProperNouns(IMWEDetector detector)
Constructs the detector from the given backing detector. May not be null.

Parameters:
detector - the detector used to back this detector
Since:
jMWE 1.0.0
Method Detail

detect

public <T extends IToken> List<IMWE<T>> detect(List<T> sentence)
Description copied from interface: IMWEDetector
Given a list of tokens, the detector searches for the MWEs in the list. It returns a set of IMWE objects representing these multi-word expressions. The method returns an empty list if no MWEs are found; the method should never return null.

Specified by:
detect in interface IMWEDetector
Overrides:
detect in class HasMWEDetector
Type Parameters:
T - the type of the tokens in the sentence
Parameters:
sentence - a sentence which the detector should search for multi-word expressions.
Returns:
a list of IMWE objects representing the multi-word expressions found in the sentence. Returns an empty list if no multi-word expressions are found; never returns null


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