A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

E

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

a regular expression capturing group matching any educational institution (in particular, a proper name followed by one of 'university', 'college', 'high school', or 'elementary', or 'university of' followed by a proper name)

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

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

a regular expression capturing group matching any educational institution (in particular, a proper name followed by one of 'University', 'College', 'High (School)', or 'Elementary (School)', or 'University of' followed by a proper name)

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

enabled - Static variable in class info.ephyra.io.Logger

True, iff logging is enabled.

enableErrorMsgs(boolean) - Static method in class info.ephyra.io.MsgPrinter

Enables or disables error messages.

enableLogging(boolean) - Static method in class info.ephyra.io.Logger

Enables or disables logging.

enableStatusMsgs(boolean) - Static method in class info.ephyra.io.MsgPrinter

Enables or disables status messages.

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

EnglishFeatureExtractor - Class in info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.extractor

Feature extractor for English answer type classification.

EnglishFeatureExtractor() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.extractor.EnglishFeatureExtractor

ensureNounPhrases(String, QuestionInterpretation) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.QuestionPattern

Ensures that the TARGET and CONTEXT objects are noun phrases and splits the objects along prepositions and punctuation marks.

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

Weight for the relation 'entailing'.

ENTERTAINMENT - Static variable in class info.ephyra.answerselection.definitional.Dossier

ENTERTAINMENT_PROPERTIES - Static variable in class info.ephyra.answerselection.definitional.Dossier

EphyraTREC13To16 - Class in info.ephyra.trec

Runs and evaluates Ephyra on the data from the TREC 13-16 QA tracks.

EphyraTREC13To16() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.trec.EphyraTREC13To16

EphyraTREC8To11 - Class in info.ephyra.trec

Runs and evaluates Ephyra on the data from the TREC 8-11 QA tracks.

EphyraTREC8To11() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.trec.EphyraTREC8To11

equals(Object) - Method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.AnswerPattern

Compares this object to another AnswerPattern.

equals(Object) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.AnswerType

equals(Object) - Method in class info.ephyra.search.Result

Indicates whether an other result is equal to this one.

equals(Object) - Method in class info.ephyra.trec.TRECNugget

equalsCommon(String, String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.util.StringUtils

Compares two strings.

equalsCommonNorm(String, String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.util.StringUtils

Compares the normalizations of the two strings, using the same criterion as the equalsCommon() method.

equalsCommonProp(String, String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.util.StringUtils

Compares two strings, using the same criterion as the equalsCommonNorm() method, but considers only words starting with a capital letter (proper nouns)

equalsIntersect(String, String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.util.StringUtils

Compares two strings.

equalsIntersectNorm(String, String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.util.StringUtils

Compares the normalizations of the two strings, using the equalsIntersect() method.

equalsNorm(String, String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.util.StringUtils

Compares the normalizations of the two strings, using the standard String.equals() method.

equalsSubset(String, String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.util.StringUtils

Compares two strings.

equalsSubsetNorm(String, String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.util.StringUtils

Compares the normalizations of the two strings, using the equalsSubset() method.

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

True, iff error messages are enabled.

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

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

a regular expression capturing group matching any one Euro unit (in particular, '€', 'EURO', and 'Euro')

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

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

a regular expression capturing group matching any one Euro unit (in particular, '€', 'EURO', and 'Euro')

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

Replaces combined group identifiers of the format [group_no1]<[group_no2] by the combinations of the corresponding groups generated by the combineStrings() method.

evalFactoidQuestion(String, Result[], float) - Static method in class info.ephyra.trec.EphyraTREC13To16

Calculates the score for a single factoid question.

evalFactoidTarget() - Static method in class info.ephyra.trec.EphyraTREC13To16

Calculates the factoid score for the current target.

evalFactoidTotal(float) - Static method in class info.ephyra.trec.EphyraTREC13To16

Calculates the total score for the factoid component and logs the score.

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

Replaces group identifiers of the format [group_no] by the corresponding group captured by a Matcher that applied the question pattern to the question string.

evalListQuestion(String, Result[], float) - Static method in class info.ephyra.trec.EphyraTREC13To16

Calculates the score for a single list question.

evalListTarget() - Static method in class info.ephyra.trec.EphyraTREC13To16

Calculates the list score for the current target.

evalListTotal(float) - Static method in class info.ephyra.trec.EphyraTREC13To16

Calculates the total score for the list component and logs the score.

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

Performs a cross-validation on the given data set for the given features and model.

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

Evaluates classification accuracy on a given test set.

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

Performs a cross-validation on the given data set for all combinations of features and models and writes a report for each evaluation.

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

EVENT - Static variable in class info.ephyra.answerselection.definitional.Dossier

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

EVENT_PROPERTIES - Static variable in class info.ephyra.answerselection.definitional.Dossier

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

Instantiates an ASSERT process using the supplied input file.

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

Expands an entity by looking up related entities.

expandEntity(String) - Method in interface info.ephyra.nlp.semantics.ontologies.Ontology

Expands an entity by looking up related entities.

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

Expands an entity by looking up related entities.

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

Expands an event by looking up related events.

expandEvent(String) - Method in interface info.ephyra.nlp.semantics.ontologies.Ontology

Expands an event by looking up related events.

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

Expands an event by looking up related events.

expandModifier(String, POS) - Method in class info.ephyra.nlp.semantics.ontologies.DomainOntology

Expands a modifier by looking up related modifiers.

expandModifier(String, POS) - Method in interface info.ephyra.nlp.semantics.ontologies.Ontology

Expands a modifier by looking up related modifiers.

expandModifier(String, POS) - Method in class info.ephyra.nlp.semantics.ontologies.WordNet

Expands a modifier by looking up related modifiers.

expandPhrase(String, Term[]) - Static method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.TermExpander

Expands a phrase by replacing the terms that occur within the phrase by their expansions.

expandTerm(Term, Predicate[], Ontology[]) - Static method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.TermExpander

Expands a term by looking up related terms in ontologies.

expandTerms(Term[], Predicate[], Ontology[]) - Static method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.TermExpander

Expands all terms by looking up related terms in ontologies.

expansionLemmas - Variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.Term

Maps lemmas of the expansions to their weights.

expansions - Variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.Term

Maps expansions of the term to their weights.

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

A utility class for running experiments with different combinations of the property values required by HierarchicalClassifierTrainer.

Experimenter(Pair<Language, Language>) - Constructor for class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.minorthird.hierarchical.Experimenter

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

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

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

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

Expression that describes the reformulation.

extensionList - Variable in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.WebTermImportanceFilter

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

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

PROPERTY objects extracted from a Result.

extract(Result, String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.patternlearning.PatternExtractor

Extracts answer patterns from the answer string of a Result object and adds them to the AnswerPatternFilter.

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

Loads target-context-answer-regex tuples from resource files, forms queries, fetches text passages, extracts answer patterns and writes them to resource files.

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

extract acronyms from the targets: "Basque ETA" --> "ETA"

extractAllContained(String[], HashDictionary) - Static method in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher

mark all parts of a String that are contained in a list of Strings

extractAllContained(String[], HashDictionary, int) - Static method in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher

mark all parts of a String that are fuyy-contained in a list of Strings

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

extract all parts from a token sequence that match a regular expression

extractAllMatches(String, Pattern) - Static method in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher

extract all parts from a token sequence that match a regular expression

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

Checks if a factoid answer was extracted with the given technique.

EXTRACTION_TECHNIQUES - Static variable in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.AnswerProjectionFilter

Answer extraction techniques in the order of their preference for answer projection.

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

Answer extraction techniques for this query type.

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

Answer extraction techniques for this query type.

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

Answer extraction techniques for this query type.

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

Answer extraction techniques for this query type.

EXTRACTION_TECHNIQUES - Static variable in class info.ephyra.querygeneration.generators.QuestionReformulationG

Answer extraction techniques for this query type.

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

The answer extraction techniques applied to results retrieved with this query.

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

If this is a factoid answer, the techniques used to extract it (optional).

extractNes(String, String[]) - Method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.PredicateExtractionFilter

Extracts NEs of the expected answer types from a sentence.

extractNes(String[][]) - Static method in class info.ephyra.nlp.NETagger

Extracts NEs from an array of tokenized sentences.

extractNes(String[][], int) - Static method in class info.ephyra.nlp.NETagger

Extracts NEs of a particular type from an array of tokenized sentences.

extractNes(Parse) - Static method in class info.ephyra.nlp.NETagger

THIS METHOD IS NOT USED Extracts NEs from a parse tree that has been augmented with NE tags.

extractNEs(String[]) - Static method in class info.ephyra.nlp.StanfordNeTagger

Extracts NEs from an array of sentences.

extractNEs(String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.nlp.StanfordNeTagger

Extracts NEs from an individual sentence.

extractNesRec(Parse, ArrayList<String>[]) - Static method in class info.ephyra.nlp.NETagger

Recursive method called by extractNes(Parse) to extract NEs from a parse tree augmented with NE tags.

extractNumbers(String[]) - Static method in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher

mark all numbers in a token sequence

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

extractor - Variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.QuestionClassifier

extractOrdinalNumbers(String[]) - Static method in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher

mark all numbers in a token sequence

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

Identifier for the extractor features.

extractPatterns(String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.patternlearning.PatternExtractor

Extract basic answer patterns from the sentence.

extractPatterns(Result[]) - Static method in class info.ephyra.patternlearning.PatternLearner

Extracts answer patterns from the text passages in the search results.

extractPos(Result) - Static method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.AnswerPatternFilter

Applies the answer patterns to the answer string of the Result object to extract PROPERTY objects.

extractQuantities(String[], String[], Pattern, int) - Static method in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher

mark all parts from a token sequence that match a regular expression

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

extract non lower case parts from the targets: "the film 'Star Wars'" --> "'Star Wars'" "1998 indictment and trial of Susan McDougal" --> "Susan McDougal" "Miss Universe 2000 crowned" --> "Miss Universe 2000" "Abraham from the bible" --> "Abraham" "Gobi desert" --> "Gobi"

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

Checks if the given answer extraction technique is applied to results retrieved with this query.

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

Hashmap holding intermediate scores so they don't influence sorting