csli.util.nlp
Class PoSTaggerFactory

java.lang.Object
  csli.util.nlp.PoSTaggerFactory

public class PoSTaggerFactory
extends Object

A factory that returns a part-of-speech tagger.

Field Summary

static String

DEFAULT_KEY

Constructor Summary

PoSTaggerFactory()

Method Summary

static PoSTagger	getNewTagger() Get a new PoS-tagger of the class specified by the default util.nlp.tagger config key
static PoSTagger	getNewTagger(String key) Get a new PoS-tagger of the class specified by the given config key OR class name
static PoSTagger	getTagger() Get the static instance of the default PoS-tagger; if none exists, a new one will be created, of the class specified by the default util.nlp.tagger config key
static PoSTagger	getTagger(String key) Get the static instance of the POS-tagger associated with the given config key OR class name; if none exists, create a new one

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

DEFAULT_KEY

public static final String DEFAULT_KEY

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Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

PoSTaggerFactory

public PoSTaggerFactory()

Method Detail

getTagger

public static PoSTagger getTagger()

Get the static instance of the default PoS-tagger; if none exists, a new one will be created, of the class specified by the default util.nlp.tagger config key

Returns:

null if the key doesn't exist, class can't be instantiated etc.

getTagger

public static PoSTagger getTagger(String key)

Get the static instance of the POS-tagger associated with the given config key OR class name; if none exists, create a new one

Parameters:

key - the name of the desired class, or a config key which points at one

Returns:

null if the key doesn't exist, class can't be instantiated etc.

getNewTagger

public static PoSTagger getNewTagger()

Get a new PoS-tagger of the class specified by the default util.nlp.tagger config key

Returns:

null if the key doesn't exist, class can't be instantiated etc.

getNewTagger

public static PoSTagger getNewTagger(String key)

Get a new PoS-tagger of the class specified by the given config key OR class name

Parameters:

key - the name of the desired class, or a config key which points at one

Returns:

null if the key doesn't exist, class can't be instantiated etc.