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saveAnswers(String, TRECAnswer[], boolean[], String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.trec.TREC13To16Parser

Appends answers to an output file.

saveClassifier(String) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.minorthird.hierarchical.HierarchicalClassifierTrainer

saveClassifier() - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.minorthird.hierarchical.HierarchicalClassifierTrainer

saveIndex(String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.nlp.indices.WordFrequencies

Saves index of word frequencies to an ouput file.

saveInterpretation(String, QuestionInterpretation, String, String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.patternlearning.PatternLearner

Saves a question interpretation, an answer string and a regular expression that describes a correct answer to a file.

savePatterns(String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.AnswerPatternFilter

Saves the answer patterns to resource files.

savePatterns(String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.patternlearning.PatternLearner

Saves answer patterns to resource files.

scale - Static variable in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.HitPositionFilter

Scaling factor to adjust the effect of this filter.

SCORE - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher

a regular expression capturing group matching any probable single or multi score from sports events (like soccer or tennis, '5:3' or '6:3, 6:1, 6:7, 7:5')

SCORE - Static variable in class info.ephyra.querygeneration.generators.BagOfTermsG

Score assigned to "bag of terms" queries.

SCORE - Static variable in class info.ephyra.querygeneration.generators.BagOfWordsG

Score assigned to "bag of words" queries.

SCORE - Static variable in class info.ephyra.querygeneration.generators.PredicateG

Score assigned to queries created from predicates.

SCORE - Static variable in class info.ephyra.querygeneration.generators.QuestionInterpretationG

The score assigned to queries created from question interpretations.

score - Variable in class info.ephyra.querygeneration.Query

The score of the query.

score - Variable in class info.ephyra.querygeneration.QuestionReformulation

Score used by the answer selection module to rank results.

score - Variable in class info.ephyra.search.Result

A confidence measure for the answer, initially 0.

SCORE_F - Static variable in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.ScoreNormalizationFilter

Identifier for the score feature.

SCORE_MAX_TOKENS - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher

SCORE_PATTERN - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher

a regular expression capturing group matching any probable single or multi score from sports events (like soccer or tennis, '5:3' or '6:3, 6:1, 6:7, 7:5')

ScoreCombinationFilter - Class in info.ephyra.answerselection.filters

The ScoreCombinationFilter combines the normalized scores of an answer extracted with several techniques into a single score.

ScoreCombinationFilter() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.ScoreCombinationFilter

ScoreNormalizationFilter - Class in info.ephyra.answerselection.filters

A filter that normalizes the scores of the answer candidates by applying a trained classifier.

ScoreNormalizationFilter(String) - Constructor for class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.ScoreNormalizationFilter

Creates the filter and loads a serialized classifier from a file.

ScoreResetterFilter - Class in info.ephyra.answerselection.filters

Filter setting the score of each result to 0.

ScoreResetterFilter() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.ScoreResetterFilter

ScoreSorterFilter - Class in info.ephyra.answerselection.filters

The ScoreSorterFilter sorts the results by their scores in descending order.

ScoreSorterFilter() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.ScoreSorterFilter

Search - Class in info.ephyra.search

The Search component queries several unstructured and (semi)structured knowledge sources in parallel and aggregate the results.

Search() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.search.Search

Searcher - Class in info.ephyra.search.searchers

A Searcher queries an unstructured or (semi)structured knowledge source and passes the results to the static class Search.

Searcher() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.search.searchers.Searcher

SELECTED_FEATURES - Static variable in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.ScoreNormalizationFilter

Subset of the features used to train the classifier.

SELECTED_MODEL - Static variable in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.ScoreNormalizationFilter

Model used for the classifier.

sentDetect(String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.nlp.LingPipe

Splits a text into sentences.

sentDetect(String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.nlp.OpenNLP

Splits a text into sentences.

sentence - Variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.semantics.Predicate

Original sentence (optional).

sentence - Variable in class info.ephyra.search.Result

If this is a factoid answer, a sentence in the supporting document the answer was extracted from (optional).

sentenceDetector - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.OpenNLP

Sentence detector from the OpenNLP project.

SentenceExtractionFilter - Class in info.ephyra.answerselection.filters

Splits the answer strings of results that are not from knowledge annotators into sentences and creates a new result for each sentence.

SentenceExtractionFilter() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.SentenceExtractionFilter

SentenceExtractor - Class in info.ephyra.nlp

Extracts sentences and text fragments from an HTML document.

SentenceExtractor() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.nlp.SentenceExtractor

sentenceModel - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.LingPipe

Sentence detection model.

SentenceSplitterFilter - Class in info.ephyra.answerselection.filters

Splits text snippets into sentences in order to facilitate the detection of redundant information.

SentenceSplitterFilter() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.SentenceSplitterFilter

sents - Static variable in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.AnswerPatternFilter

For each PROPERTY object the sentence it was extracted from.

serialFile - Static variable in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.SerializationFilter

Output file for serialized results.

serialFiles - Static variable in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.DeserializationFilter

Input file with serialized results.

SerializationFilter - Class in info.ephyra.answerselection.filters

The SerializationFilter serializes the results and writes them to a file.

SerializationFilter() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.SerializationFilter

serializedClassifier - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.StanfordNeTagger

serialVersionUID - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.semantics.Predicate

Version number used during deserialization.

serialVersionUID - Static variable in class info.ephyra.querygeneration.Query

Version number used during deserialization.

serialVersionUID - Static variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.AnalyzedQuestion

Version number used during deserialization.

serialVersionUID - Static variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.AnswerType

serialVersionUID - Static variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.minorthird.hierarchical.DummyClassifier

serialVersionUID - Static variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.minorthird.hierarchical.HierarchicalClassifier

serialVersionUID - Static variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.QuestionInterpretation

Version number used during deserialization.

serialVersionUID - Static variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.Term

Version number used during deserialization.

serialVersionUID - Static variable in class info.ephyra.search.Result

Version number used during deserialization.

serialVersionUID - Static variable in class info.ephyra.util.Properties

set(String, String) - Method in class info.ephyra.nlp.semantics.Predicate

Sets the verb or an argument of the predicate.

setAll(String[], String[]) - Method in class info.ephyra.nlp.semantics.Predicate

Sets the verb and/or arguments of the predicate.

setAnalyzedQuestion(AnalyzedQuestion) - Method in class info.ephyra.querygeneration.Query

Sets the analyzed question.

setAnswer(String) - Method in class info.ephyra.search.Result

Sets the answer string.

setAnswers(TRECAnswer[]) - Method in class info.ephyra.trec.TRECQuestion

Sets the answers determined by the QA engine.

setAnswerTypes(String[]) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.AnalyzedQuestion

setArgTerms(Term[]) - Method in class info.ephyra.nlp.semantics.Predicate

Sets the terms in the arguments.

setAtype(String) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.classifier.Rule

setCacheID(String) - Method in class info.ephyra.search.Result

Sets the ID of the document in the search engine cache.

setClassLevels(int) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.extractor.FeatureExtractor

setCondensedTarget(String) - Method in class info.ephyra.trec.TRECTarget

Sets the condensed target.

setConfidence(float) - Method in class info.ephyra.nlp.semantics.Predicate

setConfidence(double) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.AnswerType

setContext(String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.QuestionAnalysis

Sets the context string.

setContext(String[]) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.QuestionInterpretation

Sets the CONTEXT of the question.

setCorrect() - Method in class info.ephyra.search.Result

Judges the answer as correct.

setDatasetExamplePattern(Pattern) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.extractor.FeatureExtractor

setDefaultLabel(String) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.classifier.RuleBasedQuestionClassifier

setDocID(String) - Method in class info.ephyra.search.Result

Sets the ID of a document that contains the answer.

setElements(List<RuleElement>) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.classifier.Rule

setExpansionLemmas(Map<String, Double>) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.Term

Normalizes and sets the lemmas of the expansions.

setExpansions(Map<String, Double>) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.Term

setExtractionTechniques(String[]) - Method in class info.ephyra.querygeneration.Query

Sets the answer extraction techniques that are applied to results retrieved with this query.

setExtractionTechniques(String[]) - Method in class info.ephyra.search.Result

Sets the techniques a factoid answer was extracted with.

setFactoid(boolean) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.AnalyzedQuestion

setFeature(String) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.classifier.RuleElement

setFocus(String) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.AnalyzedQuestion

setFuzzyMatchingThreshold(int) - Static method in class info.ephyra.nlp.NETagger

Sets the threshold for fuzzy-lookups in gazetteer lists (aka dictionaries).

setInitialized(boolean) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.extractor.FeatureExtractor

setInitialized(boolean) - Static method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.FocusFinder

setInitialized(boolean) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.minorthird.hierarchical.Experimenter

setInitialized(boolean) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.QuestionClassifier

setInitialized(boolean) - Static method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.WordNetAnswerTypeMapping

setInstancePool(Instance.Looper) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.minorthird.hierarchical.DummyClassifierLearner

setInstancePool(Instance.Looper) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.minorthird.hierarchical.HierarchicalClassifierLearner

setInterpretation(QuestionInterpretation) - Method in class info.ephyra.querygeneration.Query

Sets the interpretation of the question used to generate this query.

setInterpretation(QuestionInterpretation) - Method in class info.ephyra.trec.TRECQuestion

Sets the question interpretation that led to the top answer.

setInterpretations(QuestionInterpretation[]) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.AnalyzedQuestion

setKeywords(String[]) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.AnalyzedQuestion

setLabelPosition(int) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.extractor.FeatureExtractor

setLanguagePair(Pair<Language, Language>) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.QuestionClassifier

setLemma(String) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.Term

Normalizes and sets the lemma of the term.

setLevel(int) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.AnswerType

Sets the Answer Type level

setLogfile(String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.io.Logger

Sets the log file.

setLogFile(String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.io.MsgPrinter

set the log file

setNes(String[][]) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.AnalyzedQuestion

setNes(Map<String, String[]>) - Method in class info.ephyra.search.Result

Sets named entities extracted from a sentence-level answer and their types.

setNeTypes(String[]) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.Term

setNormalized(String) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.AnalyzedQuestion

setNormScore(float) - Method in class info.ephyra.search.Result

Sets the normalized score of this result.

setNounPhrase(boolean) - Method in class info.ephyra.trec.TRECTarget

Marks the target as a noun phrase.

setOriginalQueryString(String) - Method in class info.ephyra.querygeneration.Query

setParsePosition(int) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.extractor.FeatureExtractor

setPattern(TRECPattern) - Static method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.OverlapAnalysisFilter

Sets the current pattern used to evaluate answer candidates.

setPredicate(Predicate) - Method in class info.ephyra.search.Result

Sets a predicate extracted from a sentence-level answer.

setPredicates(Predicate[]) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.AnalyzedQuestion

setPredicates(Predicate[]) - Static method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.QuestionAnalysis

Sets predicates that are used instead of extracting predicates from the question.

setPreviousResultsTerms(String[]) - Static method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.TermFilter

Sets the previous results so that answer candidates for an 'other' question can be filtered out if they are too close to one of them.

setProperties(Properties) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.minorthird.hierarchical.HierarchicalClassifierTrainer

Overrides default properties with those given.

setProperty(String, String) - Method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.definitional.Dossier

set a property of the target to a given value

setProperty(String, String) - Method in class info.ephyra.util.Properties

setQueryString(String) - Method in class info.ephyra.querygeneration.Query

Sets the query string.

setQuestion(String) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.AnalyzedQuestion

setQuestionPosition(int) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.extractor.FeatureExtractor

setQuestionString(String) - Method in class info.ephyra.trec.TRECQuestion

Sets a modified question string, e.g. after coreference resolution.

setRelFrequency(double) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.Term

setSchema(ExampleSchema) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.minorthird.hierarchical.DummyClassifierLearner

setSchema(ExampleSchema) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.minorthird.hierarchical.HierarchicalClassifierLearner

setScore(float) - Method in class info.ephyra.querygeneration.Query

Sets the score of the query.

setScore(float) - Method in class info.ephyra.search.Result

Sets the confidence score of this result.

setSentence(String) - Method in class info.ephyra.search.Result

Sets the supporting sentence of a factoid answer.

setSerialFile(File) - Static method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.SerializationFilter

setSerialFiles(File[]) - Static method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.DeserializationFilter

setSimPredicate(Predicate) - Method in class info.ephyra.nlp.semantics.Predicate

setSimScore(double) - Method in class info.ephyra.nlp.semantics.Predicate

setStemmed(String) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.AnalyzedQuestion

setSubtypes(List<AnswerType>) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.AnswerType

setTarget(String) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.QuestionInterpretation

Sets the TARGET of the question.

setTargetDesc(String) - Method in class info.ephyra.trec.TRECTarget

Sets the target description.

setTargetID(String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.NuggetEvaluationFilter

set the ID of the next target, so upcoming results can be checked against the respective nuggets

setTargetId(String) - Method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.NuggetEvaluationFilter

setTargetTypes(String[]) - Method in class info.ephyra.trec.TRECTarget

Sets the possible target types.

setTerms(Term[]) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.AnalyzedQuestion

setTerms(Term[]) - Method in class info.ephyra.search.Result

Sets terms extracted from a sentence-level answer.

setUseClassLevels(boolean) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.extractor.FeatureExtractor

setValue(int) - Method in class info.ephyra.nlp.StanfordParser.MutableInteger

setValues(Set<String>) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.classifier.RuleElement

setVerbMod(String) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.AnalyzedQuestion

setVerbTerm(Term[]) - Method in class info.ephyra.nlp.semantics.Predicate

Sets the term for the verb.

simPredicate - Variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.semantics.Predicate

Predicate this predicate was compared to.

simScore - Variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.semantics.Predicate

Similarity score of this predicate compared to another predicate (from [0, 1]).

simScore(Predicate) - Method in class info.ephyra.nlp.semantics.Predicate

Calculates a similarity score from [0,1] for this predicate and a given predicate.

simScore(String) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.Term

Calculates similarity scores for the given lemma and the lemmas of the term and its expansions based on their weights and the number of common tokens.

SINGLE_SCORE - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher

a regular expression capturing group matching any probable single score from sports events (like soccer or basketball scores, '5:3' or '89:109')

SINGLE_SCORE_MAX_TOKENS - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher

SINGLE_SCORE_PATTERN - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher

a regular expression capturing group matching any probable single score from sports events (like soccer or basketball scores, '5:3' or '89:109')

singularDemPronounPattern - Static variable in class info.ephyra.trec.CorefResolver

singularDemPronounString - Static variable in class info.ephyra.trec.CorefResolver

Regular expression for English singular demonstrative pronoun.

singularThirdPersonPronounPattern - Static variable in class info.ephyra.trec.CorefResolver

singularThirdPersonPronounPatternAmb - Static variable in class info.ephyra.trec.CorefResolver

singularThirdPersonPronounPatternGen - Static variable in class info.ephyra.trec.CorefResolver

singularThirdPersonPronounString - Static variable in class info.ephyra.trec.CorefResolver

Regular expression for English singular third person personal pronouns for persons.

singularThirdPersonPronounStringAmb - Static variable in class info.ephyra.trec.CorefResolver

Regular expression for English singular third person personal and possessive pronoun her.

singularThirdPersonPronounStringGen - Static variable in class info.ephyra.trec.CorefResolver

Regular expression for English singular third person possessive pronouns for persons.

singularThirdThingPronounPattern - Static variable in class info.ephyra.trec.CorefResolver

singularThirdThingPronounPatternGen - Static variable in class info.ephyra.trec.CorefResolver

singularThirdThingPronounString - Static variable in class info.ephyra.trec.CorefResolver

Regular expression for English singular third person personal pronouns for things.

singularThirdThingPronounStringGen - Static variable in class info.ephyra.trec.CorefResolver

Regular expression for English singular third person possessive pronouns for things.

SIZE - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher

a regular expression capturing group matching any one size measure (in particular, a number followed by a length, area or volume unit)

size - Variable in class info.ephyra.trec.TRECNugget

SIZE_MAX_TOKENS - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher

SIZE_PATTERN - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher

a regular expression capturing group matching any one size measure (in particular, a number followed by a length, area or volume unit)

SIZE_UNIT - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher

a regular expression capturing group matching any one size measure (in particular, a number followed by a length, area or volume unit)

SIZE_UNIT_MAX_TOKENS - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher

SIZE_UNIT_PATTERN - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher

a regular expression capturing group matching any one size measure (in particular, a number followed by a length, area or volume unit)

SMALL_AREA_UNIT - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher

a regular expression capturing group matching any one smaller scale area unit (in particular, 'square (deci|cent|milli|micro|nano)meter', and 'square yard')

SMALL_AREA_UNIT_MAX_TOKENS - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher

SMALL_AREA_UNIT_PATTERN - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher

a regular expression capturing group matching any one smaller scale area unit (in particular, 'square (deci|cent|milli|micro|nano)meter', and 'square yard')

snippet - Variable in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.WebDocumentFetcher

The search engine snippet.

SnowballStemmer - Class in info.ephyra.nlp

This class provides an interface to the Snowball stemmer for the English language.

SnowballStemmer() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.nlp.SnowballStemmer

soleLabelName - Variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.minorthird.hierarchical.DummyClassifier

soleLabelName - Variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.minorthird.hierarchical.DummyClassifierLearner

SORT_BY_FREQUENCY - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.indices.WordFrequencies

Whether words are saved in the order of their frequencies.

sortByLength(String[]) - Static method in class info.ephyra.util.StringUtils

Sorts an array of strings by their length in ascending order.

sortByLengthDesc(String[]) - Static method in class info.ephyra.util.StringUtils

Sorts an array of strings by their length in descending order.

sp - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.indices.IrregularVerbs

The simple past forms of the irregular verbs.

SPACE_PTRN - Static variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.extractor.EnglishFeatureExtractor

SPACE_PTRN - Static variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.extractor.FeatureExtractor

SPECIAL_CHARS - Static variable in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.TruncationFilter

Special characters that are truncated from answer strings.

SPECIALCHARS - Static variable in class info.ephyra.trec.TREC13To16Parser

Characters that have to be replaced before parsing an XML document.

SPEED - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher

a regular expression capturing group matching any one speed (in particular, a number followed by a speed unit)

SPEED_MAX_TOKENS - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher

SPEED_PATTERN - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher

a regular expression capturing group matching any one speed (in particular, a number followed by a speed unit)

SPEED_UNIT - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher

a regular expression capturing group matching any one speed unit (in particular, a length or distance unit devided by a time unit)

SPEED_UNIT_MAX_TOKENS - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher

SPEED_UNIT_PATTERN - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher

a regular expression capturing group matching any one speed unit (in particular, a length or distance unit devided by a time unit)

splitParagraphs() - Static method in class info.ephyra.indexing.AQUAINTPreprocessor

Splits paragraphs, e.g. to separate publisher details.

SQUARE_MILES - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher

SQUARE_MILES_MAX_TOKENS - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher

SQUARE_MILES_PATTERN - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher

SQUARE_MILES_UNIT - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher

SQUARE_MILES_UNIT_MAX_TOKENS - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher

SQUARE_MILES_UNIT_PATTERN - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher

SQUARE_ROOT_LENGTH_NORMALIZATION - Static variable in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.WebTermImportanceFilter

stanfordNames - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.NETagger

NE types that are recognized by the Stanford NE tagger.

StanfordNeTagger - Class in info.ephyra.nlp

Wrapper for the Stanford named entity recognizer.

StanfordNeTagger() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.nlp.StanfordNeTagger

StanfordParser - Class in info.ephyra.nlp

Wrapper for the Stanford parser.

StanfordParser() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.nlp.StanfordParser

Hide default ctor.

StanfordParser.MutableInteger - Class in info.ephyra.nlp

StanfordParser.MutableInteger() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.nlp.StanfordParser.MutableInteger

StanfordParser.MutableInteger(int) - Constructor for class info.ephyra.nlp.StanfordParser.MutableInteger

StanfordPosTagger - Class in info.ephyra.nlp

This class provides an interface to the Stanford part of speech tagger.

StanfordPosTagger() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.nlp.StanfordPosTagger

start(WebDocumentFetcherFilter, Result) - Method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.WebDocumentFetcher

Sets the calling filter and the snippet and starts the thread.

START - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher

start(Query) - Method in class info.ephyra.search.searchers.KnowledgeAnnotator

Sets the query and starts the thread if the knowledge annotator is appropriate for the user question.

start(Query, int) - Method in class info.ephyra.search.searchers.KnowledgeMiner

Sets the query, the hit position of the first result and the number of results to be fetched and starts the thread.

start(Query) - Method in class info.ephyra.search.searchers.KnowledgeMiner

Creates [MAX_RESULTS_TOTAL / MAX_RESULTS_PERQUERY] threads that fetch up to MAX_RESULTS_TOTAL results.

start() - Static method in class info.ephyra.util.Clock

Starts the clock.

startTime - Static variable in class info.ephyra.util.Clock

Starting time.

statusMsgs - Static variable in class info.ephyra.io.MsgPrinter

True, iff status messages are enabled.

stem(String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.nlp.SnowballStemmer

Stems a single English word.

stemAllTokens(String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.nlp.SnowballStemmer

Stems all tokens in a string of space-delimited English words.

stemmed - Variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.AnalyzedQuestion

Question string with stemmed verbs and nouns.

stemmer - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.SnowballStemmer

Snowball stemmer for the English language.

stemVerbsAndNouns(String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.QuestionNormalizer

Converts the verbs to infinitive and the nouns to their singular forms.

stop() - Static method in class info.ephyra.util.Clock

Stops the clock.

stopTime - Static variable in class info.ephyra.util.Clock

Stop time.

StopwordFilter - Class in info.ephyra.answerselection.filters

A filter that drops a result if the answer string contains only function words and single characters (except digits) contains an interrogative contains a single bracket or quotation mark is an adverb This filter is not applied to answer strings that have been extracted with a rule- or list-based NE tagger since these answers are assumed to be properly formatted.

StopwordFilter() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.StopwordFilter

STREET - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher

a regular expression capturing group matching any street (in particular, a proper name followed by a synonym of 'street', like 'Madison Avenue', 'Capitol Beltway', 'Burbon Street', etc)

STREET_MAX_TOKENS - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher

STREET_PATTERN - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher

a regular expression capturing group matching any street (in particular, a proper name followed by a synonym of 'street', like 'Madison Avenue', 'Capitol Beltway', 'Burbon Street', etc)

StringUtils - Class in info.ephyra.util

A collection of utilities for string processing.

StringUtils() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.util.StringUtils

strord(String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.util.PageRankParser

strToRegex(String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.util.RegexConverter

Transform a string into a regular expression that matches the string.

strToRegex2(String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.util.RegexConverter

Transforms a string into a regular expression that describes a regular expression that matches the string by applying the method strToRegex() twice.

strToRegexWithBounds(String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.util.RegexConverter

Transforms a string into a regular expressions and adds word boundaries if the first/last character is a word character.

SubclauseSplitterFilter - Class in info.ephyra.answerselection.filters

Splits sentences into subclauses in order to facilitate the detection of redundant information.

SubclauseSplitterFilter() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.SubclauseSplitterFilter

SUBSTANCE_OF_WEIGHT - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.semantics.ontologies.WordNet

Weight for the relation 'substance-of'.

substitute(String, String, int, int) - Static method in class info.ephyra.trec.CorefResolver

Substitutes a target noun phrase for another noun phrase within a question string

subtypes - Variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.AnswerType

sumDiff(HashMap<String, WebTermImportanceFilter.TermCounter>, HashMap<String, WebTermImportanceFilter.TermCounter>) - Method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.WebTermImportanceFilter

get the sum of a set of counters, each one minus the count in another set of counters

SUPPORT_THRESH - Static variable in class info.ephyra.patternlearning.PatternLearner

Support threshold for answer patterns.

supportDoc - Variable in class info.ephyra.trec.TRECAnswer

The supporting document.

SVM_M - Static variable in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.ScoreNormalizationFilter

Identifier for the SVM model.

SYNONYM_WEIGHT - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.semantics.ontologies.WordNet

Weight for the relation 'synonym'.