edu.stanford.nlp.time
Class GenericTimeExpressionPatterns

java.lang.Object
  edu.stanford.nlp.time.GenericTimeExpressionPatterns

All Implemented Interfaces:

TimeExpressionPatterns

public class GenericTimeExpressionPatterns
extends java.lang.Object
implements TimeExpressionPatterns

Provides generic mechanism to convert natural language into temporal representation by reading patterns/rules specifying mapping between text and temporal objects from file.

Author:

Angel Chang

Constructor Summary

GenericTimeExpressionPatterns(Options options)

Method Summary

CoreMapExpressionExtractor	createExtractor() Creates a CoreMapExpressionExtractor that knows how to extract time related expressions from text into CoreMaps
int	determineRelFlags(CoreMap annotation, TimeExpression te) Determine how date/times should be resolved for the given temporal expression and its context

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

GenericTimeExpressionPatterns

public GenericTimeExpressionPatterns(Options options)

Method Detail

createExtractor

public CoreMapExpressionExtractor createExtractor()

Description copied from interface: TimeExpressionPatterns

Creates a CoreMapExpressionExtractor that knows how to extract time related expressions from text into CoreMaps

Specified by:

createExtractor in interface TimeExpressionPatterns

Returns:

CoreMapExpressionExtractor

determineRelFlags

public int determineRelFlags(CoreMap annotation,
                             TimeExpression te)

Description copied from interface: TimeExpressionPatterns

Determine how date/times should be resolved for the given temporal expression and its context

Specified by:

determineRelFlags in interface TimeExpressionPatterns

Parameters:

annotation - Annotation from which the temporal express was extracted (context)

te - Temporal expression

Returns:

flag indicating what resolution scheme to use