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FACTOID_ABS_THRESH - Static variable in class info.ephyra.OpenEphyra
Absolute threshold for factoid question scores.
FACTOID_ABS_THRESH - Static variable in class info.ephyra.trec.EphyraTREC13To16
Absolute threshold for factoid question scores.
FACTOID_ABS_THRESH - Static variable in class info.ephyra.trec.EphyraTREC8To11
Absolute threshold for factoid question scores.
FACTOID_MAX_ANSWERS - Static variable in class info.ephyra.OpenEphyra
Maximum number of factoid answers.
FACTOID_MAX_ANSWERS - Static variable in class info.ephyra.trec.EphyraTREC13To16
Maximum number of factoid answers.
FACTOID_MAX_ANSWERS - Static variable in class info.ephyra.trec.EphyraTREC8To11
Maximum number of factoid answers.
factoidEntries - Static variable in class info.ephyra.trec.TREC13To16Parser
Cached log file entries of type "factoid".
factoidLog - Static variable in class info.ephyra.trec.EphyraTREC13To16
Load answers to factoid questions from log file?
factoidPatterns - Static variable in class info.ephyra.trec.EphyraTREC13To16
Patterns for factoid questions (optional).
factoidQuestionScores - Static variable in class info.ephyra.trec.EphyraTREC13To16
Scores for the factoid questions within a target.
FactoidsFromPredicatesFilter - Class in info.ephyra.answerselection.filters
The FactoidsFromPredicatesFilter extracts factoid answers from predicate-argument structures.
FactoidsFromPredicatesFilter() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.FactoidsFromPredicatesFilter
 
FactoidSubsetFilter - Class in info.ephyra.answerselection.filters
The FactoidSubsetFilter checks a set of factoid answers for subset relations.
FactoidSubsetFilter() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.FactoidSubsetFilter
 
factoidTargetScores - Static variable in class info.ephyra.trec.EphyraTREC13To16
Factoid scores for the targets.
feature - Variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.classifier.RuleElement
 
FeatureExtractor - Class in info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.extractor
A feature extractor for question classification.
FeatureExtractor() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.extractor.FeatureExtractor
 
FeatureExtractorFactory - Class in info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.extractor
Creates a feature extractor for a specific language.
FeatureExtractorFactory() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.extractor.FeatureExtractorFactory
 
featureTypeCombos - Variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.minorthird.hierarchical.Experimenter
 
featureTypes - Variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.minorthird.hierarchical.HierarchicalClassifierTrainer
 
FEET - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher
 
FEET_MAX_TOKENS - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher
 
FEET_PATTERN - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher
 
FEET_UNIT - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher
 
FEET_UNIT_MAX_TOKENS - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher
 
FEET_UNIT_PATTERN - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher
 
fetchPassages(Query[]) - Static method in class info.ephyra.patternlearning.PatternLearner
Fetches text passages from knowledge sources.
file2text(String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.util.HTMLConverter
Reads an HTML document from a file and converts it into plain text.
FileCache - Class in info.ephyra.util
The FileCache is a simple implementation of a permanent cache.
FileCache(String) - Constructor for class info.ephyra.util.FileCache
Creates a new cache handler and sets the directory of the cache.
fileName - Variable in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.NuggetEvaluationFilter
 
fileNameMarker - Variable in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.NuggetEvaluationFilter
 
FileUtils - Class in info.ephyra.util
A collection of file system related utilities.
FileUtils() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.util.FileUtils
 
Filter - Class in info.ephyra.answerselection.filters
A Filter is part of a pipeline for answer extraction and selection.
Filter() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.Filter
 
filter - Variable in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.WebDocumentFetcher
The WebDocumentFetcherFilter that started this thread.
filter() - Static method in class info.ephyra.patternlearning.PatternLearner
Loads answer patterns from resource files, drops patterns with a low support or confidence and writes the remaining patterns back to resource files.
filterAdverbs(Result) - Method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.StopwordFilter
Drops a result if the answer string is an adverb.
filterFunctionWords(Result) - Method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.StopwordFilter
Drops a result if the answer string contains only function words and single characters (except digits).
filterInterrogatives(Result) - Method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.StopwordFilter
Drops a result if the answer string contains an interrogative.
filterPatterns() - Static method in class info.ephyra.patternlearning.PatternLearner
Drops answer patterns that have a low support or confidence.
filterProperties(String, boolean) - Method in class info.ephyra.util.Properties
Filters the entries in this Properties object and returns a new object containing only those entries whose keys match the given string prefix.
filters - Static variable in class info.ephyra.answerselection.AnswerSelection
The Filters that are applied to the Results.
filterSingleBracket(Result) - Method in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.StopwordFilter
Drops a result if the answer string contains a single bracket or quotation mark.
find(String, String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.trec.CorefResolver
Finds all POS instances in parse
finderNames - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.NETagger
NE types that are recognized by the OpenNLP name finders.
finders - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.NETagger
Name finders from the OpenNLP project, created from different models.
findFocusNode(Tree) - Static method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.FocusFinder
Finds the focus, or target, word of a question using the specified tree templates and default rules that look for question words.
findFocusTerm(List<Term>) - Static method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.FocusFinder
Given a list of Terms, builds a parse tree using Charniak's parser, and then uses the resulting parse tree to find the focus words.
findFocusTerm(String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.FocusFinder
Given a sentence, builds a parse tree using Charniak's parser, and then uses the resulting parse tree to find the focus words.
findFocusTerm(Tree) - Static method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.FocusFinder
Finds the focus word, given a Tree.
findFocusWord(Tree) - Static method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.FocusFinder
Finds the focus word, given a Tree.
findFocusWord(List<Term>) - Static method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.FocusFinder
Given a list of Terms, builds a parse tree using Charniak's parser, and then uses the resulting parse tree to find the focus words.
findFocusWord(String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.FocusFinder
Given a sentence, builds a parse tree using Charniak's parser, and then uses the resulting parse tree to find the focus words.
findWnMapMatch(Synset, int) - Static method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.WordNetAnswerTypeMapping
 
firstResult - Variable in class info.ephyra.search.searchers.KnowledgeMiner
The hit position of the first result to be fetched.
focus - Variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.AnalyzedQuestion
Focus word.
FocusFinder - Class in info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype
Finder of the focus word, or target word, of a question.
FocusFinder() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.FocusFinder
 
forbidden - Variable in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.DuplicateFilter
Results with an answer string equal to one of these forbidden strings are dropped.
FORBIDDEN_CHAR - Static variable in class info.ephyra.search.searchers.IndriDocumentKM
Regular expression that matches characters that cause problems in Indri queries and thus should be removed from query strings.
FORBIDDEN_CHAR - Static variable in class info.ephyra.search.searchers.IndriKM
Regular expression that matches characters that cause problems in Indri queries and thus should be removed from query strings.
FORBIDDEN_DOCS - Static variable in class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.WebDocumentFetcherFilter
Forbidden document types.
formatObject(String) - Method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.QuestionPattern
Formats the extracted TARGET and CONTEXT objects.
formQueries(String) - Static method in class info.ephyra.patternlearning.PatternLearner
Loads target-context-answer-regex tuples from resource files and forms queries.
FREQUENCY - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher
a regular expression capturing group matching any one frequency (like 'once', '88 times', 'twice an hour', '25 times per day', or 'every 37 minutes')
FREQUENCY_MAX_TOKENS - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher
 
FREQUENCY_PATTERN - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.RegExMatcher
a regular expression capturing group matching any one frequency (like 'once', '88 times', 'twice an hour', '25 times per day', or 'every 37 minutes')
FunctionWords - Class in info.ephyra.nlp.indices
A dictionary of function words in English.
FunctionWords() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.nlp.indices.FunctionWords
 
FunctionWordsFilter - Class in info.ephyra.answerselection.filters
A filter that drops a result if the answer string contains only function words.
FunctionWordsFilter() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.FunctionWordsFilter
 
fuzzyContains(String, int) - Method in class info.ephyra.util.HashDictionary
Does a fuzzy lookup for a word.
fuzzyContainsToken(String, int) - Method in class info.ephyra.util.HashDictionary
Does a fuzzy lookup for a token.
fuzzyListLookupThreshold - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.NETagger
Edit distance threshold for fuzzy-lookups in dictionaries.

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