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cache(String, Result[]) - Method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.CacheResultsFilter

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

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

CACHE_DIR - Static variable in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.WebDocumentFetcherFilter

Cache directory where web documents are stored.

CACHE_DIR - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.semantics.ASSERT

Cache directory where parses are stored.

cacheDir - Variable in class info.ephyra.util.FileCache

The directory where the files are stored.

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

The ID of the document in the search engine cache (optional).

cacheLookup(String) - Method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.CacheResultsFilter

cacheLookup(String) - Method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.WebTermImportanceFilter

CacheResultsFilter - Class in info.ephyra.answerselection.filters

Caches the results along with the query string of the first result.

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

CACHING - Static variable in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.WebDocumentFetcherFilter

Enable caching of web documents.

CACHING - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.semantics.ASSERT

Enable caching of parses.

calculateLength() - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.QuestionInterpretation

Calculates the LENGTH of the QuestionInterpretation, which is defined as the sum of the length of the TARGET object and all CONTEXT objects.

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

Weight for the relation 'causing'.

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

a regular expression capturing group matching any one century (like 'eighteenth century', or '21st century')

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

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

a regular expression capturing group matching any one century (like 'eighteenth century', or '21st century')

checkLogFile(File) - Static method in class info.ephyra.nlp.semantics.ASSERT

Checks the log file for ASSERT failures.

checkPl(String[]) - Static method in class info.ephyra.trec.CorefResolver

checkSentence(Result) - Method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.PredicateExtractionFilter

Decides if predicates should be extracted from this sentence.

checkType(String) - Method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.WebTermImportanceFilter

find the NE type of a target

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

Chunker from the OpenNLP project.

classification(Instance) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.minorthird.hierarchical.DummyClassifier

classification(Instance) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.minorthird.hierarchical.HierarchicalClassifier

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

Classifier for score normalization.

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

classifier - Variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.classifier.TrainedQuestionClassifier

classifier - Variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.minorthird.hierarchical.HierarchicalClassifierTrainer

classifierDir - Variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.minorthird.hierarchical.HierarchicalClassifierTrainer

classifierLearners - Variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.minorthird.hierarchical.HierarchicalClassifierLearner

classifiers - Variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.classifier.HybridQuestionClassifier

classifiers - Variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.minorthird.hierarchical.HierarchicalClassifier

classify(Instance) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.classifier.HybridQuestionClassifier

classify(Instance) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.classifier.RuleBasedQuestionClassifier

classify(Instance) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.classifier.TrainedQuestionClassifier

classify(Instance) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.QuestionClassifier

Classifies a question, represented by an Instance, in terms of its expected answer type.

classifySet(String) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.QuestionClassifier

classLabels - Variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.minorthird.hierarchical.HierarchicalClassifierTrainer

classLevels - Variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.extractor.FeatureExtractor

classLevels - Variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.minorthird.hierarchical.HierarchicalClassifier

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

Clears the context string.

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

Unregisters all Dictionaries.

clearFilters() - Static method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.AnswerSelection

Unregisters all Filters.

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

Unregisters all KnowledgeAnnotators.

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

Unregisters all KnowledgeMiners.

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

Unregisters all Ontologies.

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

Clears the predicates.

clearQueryGenerators() - Static method in class info.ephyra.querygeneration.QueryGeneration

Unregisters all QueryGenerators.

clearSerialFiles() - Static method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.DeserializationFilter

Clears the input files with serialized results.

Clock - Class in info.ephyra.util

Implementation of a stop watch.

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

combANZ(float[], int) - Method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.ScoreCombinationFilter

Combines normalized scores using CombANZ.

combCP(float[], int) - Method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.ScoreCombinationFilter

Combines normalized scores using complementary probabilities.

CombineScoresFilter - Class in info.ephyra.answerselection.filters

Combines the extra scores of each Result and sets the main score to their sum.

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

combineStrings(String, String) - Method in class info.ephyra.querygeneration.QuestionReformulation

Combines two strings by inserting the second string in between each two tokens of the first string.

combMAX(float[], int) - Method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.ScoreCombinationFilter

Combines normalized scores using CombMAX.

combMED(float[], int) - Method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.ScoreCombinationFilter

Combines normalized scores using CombMED.

combMIN(float[], int) - Method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.ScoreCombinationFilter

Combines normalized scores using CombMIN.

combMNZ(float[], int) - Method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.ScoreCombinationFilter

Combines normalized scores using CombANZ.

combSUM(float[], int) - Method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.ScoreCombinationFilter

Combines normalized scores using CombSUM.

commandLine() - Method in class info.ephyra.OpenEphyra

A command line interface for Ephyra.

compare(Object, Object) - Method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.HitPositionComparator

Compares its two arguments for order.

compare(Object, Object) - Method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.ResultLengthComparator

Compares its two arguments for order.

compareTo(AnswerPattern) - Method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.AnswerPattern

Compares two AnswerPattern objects by comparing the number of correct applications.

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

Compares two predicates by comparing their similarity scores.

compareTo(QuestionInterpretation) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.QuestionInterpretation

Compares this QuestionInterpretation to another QuestionInterpretation object.

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

Compares two results by comparing their scores.

compile(String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher

create a Pattern from a regular expression String, using default case sensitivity

compile(String, boolean) - Static method in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher

create a Pattern from a regular expression String

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

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

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

Part of speech tag for terms that comprise multiple tokens

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

Concatenates an array of strings, using the given delimiter.

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

Concatenates an array of strings, using whitespaces as delimiters.

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

Concatenates an array of strings, using tabs as delimiters.

conciseFileName - Variable in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.NuggetEvaluationFilter

condensedTarget - Variable in class info.ephyra.trec.TRECTarget

Condensed target appended to queries for factoid and list questions.

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

Confidence score (from [0, 1]).

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

confidence - Variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.classifier.Rule

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

Confidence threshold for answer patterns.

confidenceThreshold - Variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.classifier.HybridQuestionClassifier

constructFromString(String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.AnswerType

Construct answer type from a String that looks like NUMEX.MONEY This string cannot have multiple types at any level (e.g NUMEX|PERSON not allowed) Any number of "."

contains(String) - Method in class info.ephyra.nlp.semantics.ontologies.DomainOntology

Looks up a word.

contains(String) - Method in class info.ephyra.nlp.semantics.ontologies.WordNet

Looks up a word.

contains(String) - Method in interface info.ephyra.util.Dictionary

Looks up a word.

contains(String) - Method in class info.ephyra.util.HashDictionary

Looks up a word.

containsKeyword(String, String[]) - Static method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.KeywordExtractor

Checks if the text contains one of the keywords.

containsPredicate(String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.PredicateExtractor

Checks if the question contains a predicate that can be labeled.

containsToken(String) - Method in class info.ephyra.util.HashDictionary

Looks up a word token.

context - Static variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.QuestionAnalysis

String providing additional contextual information on the question.

context - Variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.QuestionInterpretation

The CONTEXT objects of the question.

contextIDs - Variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.QuestionPattern

IDs of 0 to n groups that represent the CONTEXT of the question.

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

convertFile(File) - Static method in class info.ephyra.indexing.Blog06Preprocessor

Converts a single file.

convertToTrectext() - Static method in class info.ephyra.indexing.AQUAINT2Preprocessor

Converts the documents to the 'trectext' format required by Indri.

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

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

CorefResolver - Class in info.ephyra.trec

This class resolves references within a question string to the target description, previous questions or previous answers as required since the TREC 13 QA track.

CorefResolver() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.trec.CorefResolver

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

Counter for the number of correct applications of the pattern.

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

A flag indicating whether the answer was judged correct (optional).

countries - Variable in class info.ephyra.search.searchers.WorldFactbookKA

Country names and corresponding web pages.

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

a regular expression capturing group matching any county name (in particular, a proper name followed by 'County')

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

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

a regular expression capturing group matching any county name (in particular, a proper name followed by 'County')

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

If this is an answer to an 'other' question, list to keep the IDs of covered nugget (optional).

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

check if some result covers some nugger

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

Creates the stemmer.

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

Creates the chunker from a model file.

createDataset(String[], String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.ScoreNormalizationFilter

Creates a training/evaluation set from serialized judged Result objects.

createExample(String[], Result, Result[], String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.ScoreNormalizationFilter

Creates a training/evaluation example from a judged answer candidate.

createExample(String) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.extractor.FeatureExtractor

Creates an edu.cmu.minorthird.classify.Example object from one line of a dataset file using FeatureExtractor.createInstance(String, String).

createHierarchicalClassifierLearner(String[]) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.minorthird.hierarchical.HierarchicalClassifierTrainer

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

Creates an index of word frequencies from a folder containing text files.

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

Creates an index of word frequencies from an arbitrary text file.

createInputFile(String[]) - Static method in class info.ephyra.nlp.semantics.ASSERT

Creates a temporary file containing the sentences to be processed by ASSERT.

createInstance(String[], Result, Result[]) - Static method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.ScoreNormalizationFilter

Creates an instance for training/evaluation or classification from an answer candidate.

createInstance(String[], Result, Result[], String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.ScoreNormalizationFilter

Creates an instance for training/evaluation or classification from an answer candidate, using the question ID as a subpopulation ID.

createInstance(List<Term>, String) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.extractor.EnglishFeatureExtractor

Creates and populates an Instance from a QuestionAnalysis object.

createInstance(String) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.extractor.EnglishFeatureExtractor

createInstance(List<Term>, String) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.extractor.FeatureExtractor

Given a question as a list of Terms and it's syntactic parse tree, creates a Instance for question classification by extracting the appropriate features.

createInstance(String, String) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.extractor.FeatureExtractor

Convenience method that tokenizes the given question by whitespace, creates Terms, and calls FeatureExtractor.createInstance(List, String).

createInstance(String) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.extractor.FeatureExtractor

Creates an Instance for question classification when nothing but the original question is available for feature extraction.

createLearner(String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.ScoreNormalizationFilter

Creates a classifier learner for the given model.

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

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

Creates the linker from a directory containing models.

createMapping(String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.nlp.StanfordParser

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

Creates the parser from a directory containing models.

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

Creates the part of speech tagger from a model file and a case sensitive tag dictionary.

createReport(String[], String[], String, Evaluation, long) - Static method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.ScoreNormalizationFilter

Builds a report comprising the selected parameters (data sets, features and model) and evaluation statistics.

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

createSentence(String[]) - Static method in class info.ephyra.nlp.StanfordPosTagger

Combines the tokens into a Sentence

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

Creates models for the tokenizer and the sentence detector, if not already done.

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

Creates the sentence detector from a model file.

createSubSchema(ExampleSchema, String, int) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.minorthird.hierarchical.HierarchicalClassifierLearner

Creates an ExampleSchema (a set of class names) from the given ExampleSchema by finding all the class names in the given schema that start with the given prefix and adding their subclasses (as determined by splitting the class name on ".")

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

Creates a model for the tokenizer, if not done already.

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

Creates the tokenizer from a model file.

crossValidationFolds - Variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.minorthird.hierarchical.HierarchicalClassifierTrainer

cutExtension(String, ArrayList<String>) - Method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.WebTermImportanceFilter

cut tailing words like "University", "International", "Corporation": "Microsoft Corporation" --> "Microsoft" and add the non-cut part to target list

cutFirstNpInNpSequence(ArrayList<String>) - Method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.WebTermImportanceFilter

remove first NP in a sequence of NPs: "the film 'Star Wars'" --> "'Star Wars'"

CutKeywordsFilter - Class in info.ephyra.answerselection.filters

Trims answer candidates for definitional questions to improve the precision by chopping of leading news agency acronyms and cities.

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

cutOffExpansions(Map<String, Double>, int, double, boolean) - Static method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.TermExpander

Drops expansions that do not contain any keywords and applies the given thresholds for the maximum number of expansions and the minimum weight of an expansion.

cutOffExpansions(Map<String, Double>, boolean) - Static method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.TermExpander

Drops expansions that do not contain any keywords and applies the default thresholds for the maximum number of expansions and the minimum weight of an expansion.

cutoffLength - Variable in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.ResultLengthFilter

CutStatementProviderFilter - Class in info.ephyra.answerselection.filters

Trims answer candidates for definitional questions to improve the precision by chopping of leading introductions of indirect speech.

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

cvDataset - Variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.minorthird.hierarchical.HierarchicalClassifierTrainer