org.apache.ctakes.chunker.ae

Interface ChunkCreator

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultChunkCreator, PhraseTypeChunkCreator

public interface ChunkCreator

Implementations of this interface are responsible for creating chunk annotations. A chunk could really be anything and not necessarily a phrase type as found in shallow parsing.

See Also:

Chunker.CHUNKER_CREATOR_CLASS_PARAM

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Annotation	createChunk(JCas jCas, int begin, int end, java.lang.String chunkType)
void	initialize(UimaContext annotatorContext)

Method Detail

initialize

void initialize(UimaContext annotatorContext)
                throws ResourceInitializationException

Throws:

ResourceInitializationException

createChunk

Annotation createChunk(JCas jCas,
                     int begin,
                     int end,
                     java.lang.String chunkType)
                       throws AnalysisEngineProcessException

Parameters:

jCas - the view to which to add the created chunk.

begin - the beginning offset of the chunk

end - the ending offset of the chunk

chunkType - a string description of the chunk type - e.g. "NP"

Returns:

the annotation created by this method. If no annotation is created, then return null.

Throws:

AnalysisEngineProcessException