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

Regular expression describing the format of a line in a question classification dataset.

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

a regular expression capturing group matching any one date

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

a regular expression capturing group matching any one date given in digits (for instance, '05-09-06')

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

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

a regular expression capturing group matching any one date given in digits (for instance, '05-09-06')

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

a regular expression capturing group matching any one full date, optionally including the weekday (for instance, 'Tuesday, May 9th, 2006')

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

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

a regular expression capturing group matching any one full date, optionally including the weekday (for instance, 'Thuesday, May 9th, 2006')

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

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

a regular expression capturing group matching any one date

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

a regular expression capturing group matching any one character useually used to seperate the digit groups in a date (in particular, the characters ',', '

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

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

a regular expression capturing group matching any one character useually used to seperate the digit groups in a date (in particular, the characters ',', '

DATE_TIME_P - Static variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.PredicateExtractor

Pattern for questions seeking a date/time.

DATE_TIME_R - Static variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.PredicateExtractor

Replacement if question is seeking a date/time.

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

a regular expression capturing group matching any one day date (in particular, numbers 1 through 31)

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

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

a regular expression capturing group matching any one day in a month (e.g.

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

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

a regular expression capturing group matching any one day in a month

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

a regular expression capturing group matching any one day date (in particular, numbers 1 through 31)

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

a regular expression capturing group matching any one duration given in days (in particular, a number followed by 'day' or 'days')

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

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

a regular expression capturing group matching any one duration given in days (in particular, a number followed by a time unit)

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

a regular expression capturing group matching any one duration given in days (in particular, a number followed by 'day' or 'days')

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

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

a regular expression capturing group matching any one duration given in days (in particular, a number followed by a time unit)

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

a regular expression capturing group matching any one decade (like '80s', '1920s' or 'sixties')

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

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

a regular expression capturing group matching any one decade (like '80s', '1920s' or 'sixties')

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

Identifier for the Decision Tree model.

decrement() - Method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.WebTermImportanceFilter.TermCounter

decrement the value of this TermCounter by 1

decrement(int) - Method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.WebTermImportanceFilter.TermCounter

decrement the value of this TermCounter by dec

DEFAULT_EXPORT_DATE_FORMAT - Static variable in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.NuggetEvaluationFilter

defaultLabel - Variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.classifier.RuleBasedQuestionClassifier

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

DELIMS1 - Static variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.KeywordExtractor

Tokens that are always separated with blanks.

DELIMS2 - Static variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.KeywordExtractor

Tokens that are only separated with blanks if not in between numbers.

DELIMS3 - Static variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.KeywordExtractor

Tokens that are only separated with blanks if final token.

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

The pattern descriptor from which the pattern is built.

DeserializationFilter - Class in info.ephyra.answerselection.filters

The DeserializationFilter reads serialized results from one or more files.

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

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

Unloads static resources.

determineTypes(TRECTarget) - Static method in class info.ephyra.trec.TargetPreprocessor

Determines possible types for the target.

dict - Variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.semantics.ontologies.DomainOntology

Dictionary of words in the ontology.

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

WordNet dictionary.

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

dictionary - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.indices.FunctionWords

The dictionary containing the function words.

dictionary - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.indices.Prepositions

The dictionary containing the prepositions.

Dictionary - Interface in info.ephyra.util

A Dictionary data structure is used to store and look up words.

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

Dictionaries for term extraction.

dir - Static variable in class info.ephyra.indexing.AQUAINT2Preprocessor

Directory of the AQUAINT corpus

dir - Static variable in class info.ephyra.indexing.AQUAINTPreprocessor

Directory of the AQUAINT corpus

dir - Variable in class info.ephyra.OpenEphyra

The directory of Ephyra, required when Ephyra is used as an API.

DirectSpeechFilter - Class in info.ephyra.answerselection.filters

Drops answer candidates for definitional questions that consist of direct speech.

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

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

ID of the group that covers the string between TARGET and PROPERTY.

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

Number of distinct words in the index.

divideValue(int) - Method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.WebTermImportanceFilter.TermCounter

devide the value of this TermCounter times denom

DO_P - Static variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.PredicateExtractor

Pattern that matches any form of 'to do'.

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

The ID (e.g. a URL) of a document containing the answer (optional).

docs - Variable in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.WebDocumentFetcherFilter

Documents fetched by the WebDocumentFetcher threads.

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

a regular expression capturing group matching any one US Dollar unit (in particular, '$', 'USD', and 'Dollar')

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

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

a regular expression capturing group matching any one US Dollar unit (in particular, '$', 'USD', and 'Dollar')

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

An ontology for a specific domain created from resource files.

DomainOntology(String, String, String) - Constructor for class info.ephyra.nlp.semantics.ontologies.DomainOntology

Creates the ontology for a specific domain from input files.

doSearch(Query[]) - Static method in class info.ephyra.search.Search

Sends several alternative queries to all the searchers that have been registered and returns the aggregated results.

doSearch() - Method in class info.ephyra.search.searchers.GoogleKM

Queries the Google search engine and returns an array containing up to MAX_RESULTS_PERQUERY search results.

doSearch() - Method in class info.ephyra.search.searchers.IndriDocumentKM

Queries the Indri indices or servers and returns an array containing up to MAX_RESULTS_PERQUERY search results.

doSearch() - Method in class info.ephyra.search.searchers.IndriKM

Queries the Indri indices or servers and returns an array containing up to MAX_RESULTS_PERQUERY search results.

doSearch() - Method in class info.ephyra.search.searchers.Searcher

Searches an unstructured or (semi)structured knowledge source and returns an array of search results.

doSearch() - Method in class info.ephyra.search.searchers.WikipediaKA

Queries Wikipedia for a definition and returns an array containing a single Result object or an empty array, if the search failed.

doSearch() - Method in class info.ephyra.search.searchers.WorldFactbookKA

Searches the World Factbook for country details and returns an array containing a single Result object or an empty array, if the search failed.

doSearch() - Method in class info.ephyra.search.searchers.YahooKM

Queries the Yahoo search engine and returns an array containing up to MAX_RESULTS_PERQUERY search results.

Dossier - Class in info.ephyra.answerselection.definitional

A Dossier specifies different properties of a target (such as a person or an event).

Dossier(String, String) - Constructor for class info.ephyra.answerselection.definitional.Dossier

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

dropAllCachedEntries() - Static method in class info.ephyra.trec.TREC13To16Parser

Drops the cached entries of all types.

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

Drops all arguments that contain the given string.

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

Drops keywords that should not be part of a query string.

dropCachedFactoidEntries() - Static method in class info.ephyra.trec.TREC13To16Parser

Drops the cached entries of type "factoid".

dropCachedListEntries() - Static method in class info.ephyra.trec.TREC13To16Parser

Drops the cached entries of type "list".

dropCachedOtherEntries() - Static method in class info.ephyra.trec.TREC13To16Parser

Drops the cached entries of type "other".

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

Drops the CONTEXT without recalculating the length.

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

Drops duplicates.

dropDuplicates(ArrayList<Result>) - Static method in class info.ephyra.search.Search

Drops duplicates among results from KnowledgeMiners.

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

Drops filler words from the question string.

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

Removes the most frequent words if the number of words exceeds the threshold specified in the MAX_WORDS field.

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

Drops function words.

dropLowConfidence(float) - Static method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.AnswerPatternFilter

Drops answer patterns that have a confidence of confidenceThresh or less.

dropLowSupport(float) - Static method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.AnswerPatternFilter

Drops answer patterns that have a support of supportThresh or less.

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

Removes the final punctuation mark and quotation marks from the question string.

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

Drops rare words from the index.

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

Drops single characters.

DummyClassifier - Class in info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.minorthird.hierarchical

Dummy classifier that always assigns the same class.

DummyClassifier(String) - Constructor for class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.minorthird.hierarchical.DummyClassifier

DummyClassifierLearner - Class in info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.minorthird.hierarchical

Dummy learner that simply returns a classifier which always assigns the same class.

DummyClassifierLearner(String) - Constructor for class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.minorthird.hierarchical.DummyClassifierLearner

DuplicateFilter - Class in info.ephyra.answerselection.filters

The DuplicateFilter drops duplicate results.

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

DuplicateSnippetFilter - Class in info.ephyra.answerselection.filters

A variant of the DuplicateFilter for answer candidates that are text snippets.

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

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

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

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

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

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

DURATION_R - Static variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.PredicateExtractor

Replacement if question is seeking a location.

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

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

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

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

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