org.apache.ctakes.chunker.ae

Class DefaultChunkCreator

java.lang.Object

org.apache.ctakes.chunker.ae.DefaultChunkCreator

All Implemented Interfaces:

ChunkCreator

public class DefaultChunkCreator
extends Object
implements ChunkCreator

This chunker creator simply creates annotations of type edu.mayo.bmi.chunker.type.Chunk and sets the chunkType feature of the annotation to the passed in parameter chunkType.

Author:

Philip

See Also:

org.apache.ctakes.typesystem.type.Chunk

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
DefaultChunkCreator()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
org.apache.uima.jcas.tcas.Annotation	createChunk(org.apache.uima.jcas.JCas jCas, int start, int end, String chunkType)
void	initialize(org.apache.uima.UimaContext annotatorContext)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

DefaultChunkCreator

public DefaultChunkCreator()

Method Detail

initialize

public void initialize(org.apache.uima.UimaContext annotatorContext)
                throws org.apache.uima.resource.ResourceInitializationException

Specified by:

initialize in interface ChunkCreator

Throws:

org.apache.uima.resource.ResourceInitializationException

createChunk

public org.apache.uima.jcas.tcas.Annotation createChunk(org.apache.uima.jcas.JCas jCas,
                                                        int start,
                                                        int end,
                                                        String chunkType)

Specified by:

createChunk in interface ChunkCreator

Parameters:

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

start - 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.