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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.