edu.ucla.sspace.dv

Class MinimumPennTemplateAcceptor

java.lang.Object

edu.ucla.sspace.dv.MinimumPennTemplateAcceptor

All Implemented Interfaces:

DependencyPathAcceptor

public class MinimumPennTemplateAcceptor
extends Object
implements DependencyPathAcceptor

A DependencyPathAcceptor that accepts the minimum set of path templates specified by Padó and Lapata (2007). This acceptor is designed to be used with the Penn Treebank part of speech tag set and dependency relations from the pre-1.4 Malt parser (not the Stanford typed dependencies). Note that this template's patters is an adaptation of the the original patterns, which were specified using the Minipar relations and part of speech tags.

See Also:

MediumPennTemplateAcceptor, MaximumPennTemplateAcceptor

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
MinimumPennTemplateAcceptor() Creates the acceptor with its standard templates

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	accepts(DependencyPath path) Returns true if the path matches one of the predefined templates
int	maxPathLength() Returns the maximum path length allowed by this acceptor.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

MinimumPennTemplateAcceptor

public MinimumPennTemplateAcceptor()

Creates the acceptor with its standard templates

Method Detail

accepts

public boolean accepts(DependencyPath path)

Returns true if the path matches one of the predefined templates

Specified by:

accepts in interface DependencyPathAcceptor

Parameters:

path - a dependency path

Returns:

true if the path matches a template

maxPathLength

public int maxPathLength()

Returns the maximum path length allowed by this acceptor.

Specified by:

maxPathLength in interface DependencyPathAcceptor

Returns:

the length above which no path will be accepted