edu.stanford.nlp.time
Interface TimeExpressionPatterns

All Known Implementing Classes:

EnglishTimeExpressionPatterns, GenericTimeExpressionPatterns

public interface TimeExpressionPatterns

Interface for rules/patterns for transforming time related natural language expressions into temporal representations Patterns are based on the TokensRegex

Author:

Angel Chang

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

Method Detail

createExtractor

CoreMapExpressionExtractor createExtractor()

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

Returns:

CoreMapExpressionExtractor

determineRelFlags

int determineRelFlags(CoreMap annotation,
                      TimeExpression te)

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

Parameters:

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

te - Temporal expression

Returns:

flag indicating what resolution scheme to use