edu.ucla.sspace.text.corpora

Class SemEvalLexSubReader

java.lang.Object

org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler

edu.ucla.sspace.text.corpora.SemEvalLexSubReader

All Implemented Interfaces:

CorpusReader<Document>, ContentHandler, DTDHandler, EntityResolver, ErrorHandler

public class SemEvalLexSubReader
extends org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler
implements CorpusReader<Document>

Reads the xml corpus files for the SemEval 2010 Lexical Substition task, available here. Each file contains all of the contexts for a single word. The xml files should be unchanged from their original format.

This CorpusReader returns documents in the following format:
word_instance_id text ... ||| *focus_word* text ...

Note that this is implemented as a DefaultHandler for a SAXParser.

Author:

Keith Stevens

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Class and Description
class	SemEvalLexSubReader.SemEvalHandler

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
SemEvalLexSubReader()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Iterator<Document>	read(File file) Returns a Iterator that traverses the documents containted in the given file.
Iterator<Document>	read(Reader reader) Retrusn a Iterator that traverses the documents contained in baseReader.

Methods inherited from class org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler

characters, endDocument, endElement, endPrefixMapping, error, fatalError, ignorableWhitespace, notationDecl, processingInstruction, resolveEntity, setDocumentLocator, skippedEntity, startDocument, startElement, startPrefixMapping, unparsedEntityDecl, warning

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

SemEvalLexSubReader

public SemEvalLexSubReader()

Method Detail

read

public Iterator<Document> read(Reader reader)

Retrusn a Iterator that traverses the documents contained in baseReader.

Specified by:

read in interface CorpusReader<Document>

Parameters:

reader - A Reader that will extract text from a data source, such as a URL, a File, a data stream, or any other source accesible via the Reader interface. Each CorpusReader should specify the expected text format, be it an XML schema or some other unique format.

read

public Iterator<Document> read(File file)

Returns a Iterator that traverses the documents containted in the given file.

Specified by:

read in interface CorpusReader<Document>

Parameters:

file - A text file holding documents in a format that is readable by a particular CorpusReader. This text file may have it's own unique text structure or an xml format. Each CorpusReader should specify the expected text format.