gate.creole.nerc
Class EntityDescriptor

java.lang.Object
  gate.creole.nerc.EntityDescriptor

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable

public class EntityDescriptor
extends Object
implements Serializable

Represents a single named entity

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

EntityDescriptor(Document document, Annotation annotation)
Constructs a new entity descriptor starting from a Gate annotation

EntityDescriptor(String string, String category, int start, int end)
Constructs a new entity descriptor

Method Summary

String	getCategory() Returns the category of the entity
int[]	getOffsets() Returns a pair of integers specifying the character offsets in the original file where the entity occured
String	getString() Returns a normalised string for the entity.
protected String	normaliseString(String text) Normalises a string.
String	toString() Returns a string giving the category, offsets and normalised string for the entity, with no newlines.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

EntityDescriptor

public EntityDescriptor(String string,
                        String category,
                        int start,
                        int end)

Constructs a new entity descriptor

EntityDescriptor

public EntityDescriptor(Document document,
                        Annotation annotation)

Constructs a new entity descriptor starting from a Gate annotation

Method Detail

getString

public String getString()

Returns a normalised string for the entity. This is the string from the text document the entity was descovered in, with all whitespace sequences replaced by a single space character

getCategory

public String getCategory()

Returns the category of the entity

getOffsets

public int[] getOffsets()

Returns a pair of integers specifying the character offsets in the original file where the entity occured

toString

public String toString()

Returns a string giving the category, offsets and normalised string for the entity, with no newlines.

Overrides:

toString in class Object

normaliseString

protected String normaliseString(String text)

Normalises a string. That is removes all the leading and trailing whitespace characters and replaces all inner whitespace sequences with a single space character