edu.stanford.nlp.pipeline
Class AnnotatorFactory

java.lang.Object
  edu.stanford.nlp.pipeline.AnnotatorFactory

All Implemented Interfaces:

Factory<Annotator>, java.io.Serializable

public abstract class AnnotatorFactory
extends java.lang.Object
implements Factory<Annotator>

A Factory for creating a certain type of Annotator.

Author:

Mihai Surdeanu

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

protected java.util.Properties

properties

Constructor Summary

protected

AnnotatorFactory(java.util.Properties properties)

Method Summary

abstract Annotator	create() Creates and returns an Annotator given the local properties.
abstract java.lang.String	signature() Creates the annotator's signature given the current properties.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

properties

protected final java.util.Properties properties

Constructor Detail

AnnotatorFactory

protected AnnotatorFactory(java.util.Properties properties)

Method Detail

create

public abstract Annotator create()

Creates and returns an Annotator given the local properties.

Specified by:

create in interface Factory<Annotator>

Returns:

A new instance of the type T

signature

public abstract java.lang.String signature()

Creates the annotator's signature given the current properties. We use this to understand if the user wants to recreate the same annotator type but with different parameters.