org.apache.ctakes.chunker.ae
Class PhraseTypeChunkCreator

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.ctakes.chunker.ae.PhraseTypeChunkCreator

All Implemented Interfaces:

ChunkCreator

public class PhraseTypeChunkCreator
extends java.lang.Object
implements ChunkCreator

This chunker creator creates annotations of type org.apache.ctakes.typesystem.type.* and sets the chunkType feature of the annotation to the passed in parameter chunkType.

Author:

Philip

See Also:

org.apache.ctakes.chunker.ae.type

Constructor Summary

PhraseTypeChunkCreator()

Method Summary

org.apache.uima.jcas.tcas.Annotation	createChunk(org.apache.uima.jcas.JCas jCas, int start, int end, java.lang.String chunkType)
void	initialize(org.apache.uima.UimaContext uimaContext)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

PhraseTypeChunkCreator

public PhraseTypeChunkCreator()

Method Detail

initialize

public void initialize(org.apache.uima.UimaContext uimaContext)
                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,
                                                        java.lang.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.