gate
Interface Corpus

All Superinterfaces:

Collection, FeatureBearer, Iterable, LanguageResource, List, NameBearer, Resource, Serializable, SimpleCorpus

All Known Subinterfaces:

IndexedCorpus

All Known Implementing Classes:

CorpusImpl, DatabaseCorpusImpl, SerialCorpusImpl

public interface Corpus
extends SimpleCorpus

Corpora are lists of Document. TIPSTER equivalent: Collection.

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface gate.SimpleCorpus

CORPUS_DOCLIST_PARAMETER_NAME, CORPUS_NAME_PARAMETER_NAME

Method Summary

void	addCorpusListener(CorpusListener l) Registers a new CorpusListener with this corpus.
boolean	isDocumentLoaded(int index) This method returns true when the document is already loaded in memory.
void	removeCorpusListener(CorpusListener l) Removes one of the listeners registered with this corpus.
void	unloadDocument(Document doc) Unloads the document from memory.

Methods inherited from interface gate.SimpleCorpus

getDocumentName, getDocumentNames, populate

Methods inherited from interface gate.LanguageResource

getDataStore, getLRPersistenceId, getParent, isModified, setDataStore, setLRPersistenceId, setParent, sync

Methods inherited from interface gate.Resource

cleanup, getParameterValue, init, setParameterValue, setParameterValues

Methods inherited from interface gate.util.FeatureBearer

getFeatures, setFeatures

Methods inherited from interface gate.util.NameBearer

getName, setName

Methods inherited from interface java.util.List

add, add, addAll, addAll, clear, contains, containsAll, equals, get, hashCode, indexOf, isEmpty, iterator, lastIndexOf, listIterator, listIterator, remove, remove, removeAll, retainAll, set, size, subList, toArray, toArray

Method Detail

unloadDocument

void unloadDocument(Document doc)

Unloads the document from memory. Only needed if memory preservation is an issue. Only supported for Corpus which is stored in a Datastore. To get this document back in memory, use get() on Corpus or if you have its persistent ID, request it from the Factory.

Transient Corpus objects do nothing, because there would be no way to get the document back again afterwards.

Parameters:

doc - Document to be unloaded from memory.

isDocumentLoaded

boolean isDocumentLoaded(int index)

This method returns true when the document is already loaded in memory. The transient corpora will always return true as they can only contain documents that are present in the memory.

removeCorpusListener

void removeCorpusListener(CorpusListener l)

Removes one of the listeners registered with this corpus.

Parameters:

l - the listener to be removed.

addCorpusListener

void addCorpusListener(CorpusListener l)

Registers a new CorpusListener with this corpus.

Parameters:

l - the listener to be added.