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waitForDocs() - Method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.WebDocumentFetcherFilter

Delays the main thread until all documents have been fetched.

waitForPending() - Method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.WebDocumentFetcherFilter

Delays a thread until there are less than MAX_PENDING pending fetchers.

waitForPending() - Static method in class info.ephyra.search.Search

Delays a thread until there are less than MAX_PENDING pending queries.

waitForResults() - Static method in class info.ephyra.search.Search

Delays the main thread until all queries have been completed.

WebDocumentFetcher - Class in info.ephyra.answerselection.filters

A thread that fetches a web document containing a given search engine snippet.

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

WebDocumentFetcherFilter - Class in info.ephyra.answerselection.filters

A filter that fetches web documents that contain the given search engine snippets.

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

WebTermImportanceFilter - Class in info.ephyra.answerselection.filters

A web reinforcement approach that ranks answer candidates for definitional questions.

WebTermImportanceFilter(int, int, boolean) - Constructor for class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.WebTermImportanceFilter

WebTermImportanceFilter.CacheEntry - Class in info.ephyra.answerselection.filters

WebTermImportanceFilter.CacheEntry(String, HashMap<String, WebTermImportanceFilter.TermCounter>) - Constructor for class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.WebTermImportanceFilter.CacheEntry

WebTermImportanceFilter.TargetGeneratorTest - Class in info.ephyra.answerselection.filters

WebTermImportanceFilter.TargetGeneratorTest(int) - Constructor for class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.WebTermImportanceFilter.TargetGeneratorTest

WebTermImportanceFilter.TermCounter - Class in info.ephyra.answerselection.filters

WebTermImportanceFilter.TermCounter() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.WebTermImportanceFilter.TermCounter

Constructor

WebTermImportanceFilter.TermCounter(int) - Constructor for class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.WebTermImportanceFilter.TermCounter

Constructor

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

a regular expression capturing group matching any one weekday

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

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

a regular expression capturing group matching any one weekday

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

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

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

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

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

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

a regular expression capturing group matching any one volume unit

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

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

a regular expression capturing group matching any one volume unit

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

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

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

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

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

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

whitespace_pattern - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.StanfordParser

whLabels - Static variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.FocusFinder

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

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

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

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

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

WikipediaGoogleTermImportanceFilter - Class in info.ephyra.answerselection.filters

A web term importance filter that counts term frequencies in a Wikipedia article on the target of the question.

WikipediaGoogleTermImportanceFilter(int, int, boolean) - Constructor for class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.WikipediaGoogleTermImportanceFilter

WikipediaKA - Class in info.ephyra.search.searchers

A KnowledgeAnnotator for the Wikipedia online encyclopedia.

WikipediaKA(String, ArrayList<Pattern>, ArrayList<String>) - Constructor for class info.ephyra.search.searchers.WikipediaKA

Protected constructor used by the getCopy() method.

WikipediaKA(String) - Constructor for class info.ephyra.search.searchers.WikipediaKA

Creates a WikipediaKA and calls the constructor of the superclass that reads the question patterns from a file.

WikipediaTermImportanceFilter - Class in info.ephyra.answerselection.filters

A web term importance filter that counts term frequencies in a Wikipedia article on the target of the question.

WikipediaTermImportanceFilter(int, int, boolean) - Constructor for class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.WikipediaTermImportanceFilter

wnAtypeMap - Static variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.WordNetAnswerTypeMapping

wnAtypeMapKeys - Static variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.WordNetAnswerTypeMapping

WordFrequencies - Class in info.ephyra.nlp.indices

Counts the frequencies of words in an arbitrary text corpus and represents them in a dictionary.

WordFrequencies() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.nlp.indices.WordFrequencies

WordNet - Class in info.ephyra.nlp.semantics.ontologies

An interface to WordNet, a lexical database for the English language.

WordNet() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.nlp.semantics.ontologies.WordNet

WordNetAnswerTypeMapping - Class in info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype

Uses WordNet to map question focus terms to answer types.

WordNetAnswerTypeMapping() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.WordNetAnswerTypeMapping

words - Variable in class info.ephyra.util.HashDictionary

HashSet used to store the words.

WorldFactbookKA - Class in info.ephyra.search.searchers

A KnowledgeAnnotator for the CIA World Factbook.

WorldFactbookKA(String, ArrayList<Pattern>, ArrayList<String>) - Constructor for class info.ephyra.search.searchers.WorldFactbookKA

Protected constructor used by the getCopy() method.

WorldFactbookKA(String) - Constructor for class info.ephyra.search.searchers.WorldFactbookKA

Creates a WorldFactbookKA and calls the constructor of the superclass that reads the question patterns from a file.

write(String, String[]) - Method in class info.ephyra.util.FileCache

Writes new entries to the cache.

writeSerialized(Object, File) - Static method in class info.ephyra.util.FileUtils

Writes a serialized object to a file.

writeString(String, File, String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.util.FileUtils

Writes a string to a file, using the given encoding.

wrong - Variable in class info.ephyra.answerselection.AnswerPattern

Counter for the number of wrong applications of the pattern.