Interface NERecogniser

All Known Implementing Classes:

CoreNLPNERecogniser, GrobidNERecogniser, MITIENERecogniser, NLTKNERecogniser, OpenNLPNameFinder, OpenNLPNERecogniser, RegexNERecogniser

public interface NERecogniser

Defines a contract for named entity recogniser. The NER contract includes isAvailable(), getEntityTypes() and recognise(String)

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
static final String	DATE
static final String	LOCATION
static final String	MISCELLANEOUS
static final String	MONEY
static final String	ORGANIZATION
static final String	PERCENT
static final String	PERSON
static final String	TIME

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
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

Field Details

LOCATION

static final String LOCATION

See Also:

• Constant Field Values

PERSON

static final String PERSON

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• Constant Field Values

ORGANIZATION

static final String ORGANIZATION

See Also:

• Constant Field Values

MISCELLANEOUS

static final String MISCELLANEOUS

See Also:

• Constant Field Values

TIME

static final String TIME

See Also:

• Constant Field Values

DATE

static final String DATE

See Also:

• Constant Field Values

PERCENT

static final String PERCENT

See Also:

• Constant Field Values

MONEY

static final String MONEY

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• Constant Field Values

Method Details

isAvailable

boolean isAvailable()

checks if this Named Entity recogniser is available for service

Returns:

true if this recogniser is ready to recognise, false otherwise

getEntityTypes

Set<String> getEntityTypes()

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

Returns:

set of entity types/classes

recognise

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

call for name recognition action from text

Parameters:

text - text with possibly contains names

Returns:

map of entityType -> set of names