Package org.apache.tika.parser.ner.opennlp

Class OpenNLPNameFinder

java.lang.Object

org.apache.tika.parser.ner.opennlp.OpenNLPNameFinder

All Implemented Interfaces:

NERecogniser

public class OpenNLPNameFinder
extends Object
implements NERecogniser

An implementation of NERecogniser that finds names in text using Open NLP Model. This implementation works with only one entity type. For chain this name finder instances, see OpenNLPNERecogniser

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface org.apache.tika.parser.ner.NERecogniser

DATE, LOCATION, MISCELLANEOUS, MONEY, ORGANIZATION, PERCENT, PERSON, TIME

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
OpenNLPNameFinder(String nameType, String nerModelPath)	Creates OpenNLP name finder

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Map<String,Set<String>>	findNames(String[] tokens)	finds names from given array of tokens
Set<String>	getEntityTypes()	gets a set of entity types whose names are recognisable by this
boolean	isAvailable()	checks if this Named Entity recogniser is available for service
Map<String,Set<String>>	recognise(String text)	call for name recognition action from text
static String[]	tokenize(String text)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

OpenNLPNameFinder

public OpenNLPNameFinder(String nameType,
                         String nerModelPath)

Creates OpenNLP name finder

Parameters:

nameType - the entity type recognised by the given NER model

nerModelPath - path to ner model

Method Detail

tokenize

public static String[] tokenize(String text)

isAvailable

public boolean isAvailable()

Description copied from interface: NERecogniser

checks if this Named Entity recogniser is available for service

Specified by:

isAvailable in interface NERecogniser

Returns:

true if this recogniser is ready to recognise, false otherwise

getEntityTypes

public Set<String> getEntityTypes()

Description copied from interface: NERecogniser

gets a set of entity types whose names are recognisable by this

Specified by:

getEntityTypes in interface NERecogniser

Returns:

set of entity types/classes

recognise

public Map<String,Set<String>> recognise(String text)

Description copied from interface: NERecogniser

call for name recognition action from text

Specified by:

recognise in interface NERecogniser

Parameters:

text - text with possibly contains names

Returns:

map of entityType -> set of names

findNames

public Map<String,Set<String>> findNames(String[] tokens)

finds names from given array of tokens

Parameters:

tokens - the tokens array

Returns:

map of EntityType -> set of entity names