edu.mit.csail.brill
Class BrillTagger

java.lang.Object
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public class BrillTagger

extends Object

The Java interface to Eric Brill's part-of-speech tagger. It is written as a wrapper around BTagger, the raw JNI interface around the original tagger.

Here is the complete tagset:

1. CC Coordinating conjunction
2. CD Cardinal number
3. DT Determiner
4. EX Existential there
5. FW Foreign word
6. IN Preposition/subord. conjunction
7. JJ Adjective
8. JJR Adjective, comparative
9. JJS Adjective, superlative
10. LS List item marker
11. MD Modal
12. NN Noun, singular or mass
13. NNS Noun, plural
14. NNP Proper noun, singular
15. NNPS Proper noun, plural
16. PDT Predeterminer
17. POS Possessive ending
18. PRP Personal pronoun
19. PRP$ Possessive pronoun
20. RB Adverb
21. RBR Adverb, comparative
22. RBS Adverb, superlative
23. RP Particle
24. SYM Symbol (mathematical or scientific)
25. TO to
26. UH Interjection
27. VB Verb, base form
28. VBD Verb, past tense
29. VBG Verb, gerund/present participle
30. VBN Verb, past participle
31. VBP Verb, non-3rd ps. sing. present
32. VBZ Verb, 3rd ps. sing. present
33. WDT wh-determiner
34. WP wh-pronoun
35. WP$ Possessive wh-pronoun
36. WRB wh-adverb
37. # Pound sign
38. $ Dollar sign
39. . Sentence-final punctuation
40. , Comma
41. : Colon, semi-colon
42. ( Left bracket character
43. ) Right bracket character
44. " Straight double quote
45. ` Left open single quote
46. " Left open double quote
47. ' Right close single quote
48. " Right close double quote

Author:

Jimmy Lin

Constructor Summary

BrillTagger()
Creates an instance of Brill's part-of-speech tagger.

Method Summary

void	destroy() Destroys the tagger.
static void	main(String[] arg)
void	setup() Initializes the tagger.
edu.mit.csail.brill.Sentence	tag(String sentence) Part-of-speech tags a sentence.
static String	tokenize(String s)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

BrillTagger

public BrillTagger()

Creates an instance of Brill's part-of-speech tagger.

Method Detail

setup

public void setup()

Initializes the tagger.

destroy

public void destroy()

Destroys the tagger.

tag

public edu.mit.csail.brill.Sentence tag(String sentence)

Part-of-speech tags a sentence.

Parameters:

sentence - the sentence to tag

Returns:

TaggedToken[] an array containing the tag output

tokenize

public static String tokenize(String s)

main

public static void main(String[] arg)
                 throws IOException

IOException