info.ephyra.answerselection.filters
Class CutKeywordsFilter

java.lang.Object
  info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.Filter
      info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.CutKeywordsFilter

public class CutKeywordsFilter
extends Filter

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

This class extends the class Filter.

Version:

2008-02-10

Author:

Guido Sautter

Field Summary

private static java.util.regex.Pattern	BRACKETS
private static java.util.regex.Pattern	KEYWORDS

Constructor Summary

CutKeywordsFilter()

Method Summary

Result	apply(Result result) Cut the leading news agency acronym and city from a snippet, for instance from 'MOSCOW (ITAR-TAS) ... some useful information
Result[]	apply(Result[] results) Cut the leading news agency acronym and city from a snippet, for instance from 'MOSCOW (ITAR-TAS) ... some useful information

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

KEYWORDS

private static final java.util.regex.Pattern KEYWORDS

BRACKETS

private static final java.util.regex.Pattern BRACKETS

Constructor Detail

CutKeywordsFilter

public CutKeywordsFilter()

Method Detail

apply

public Result apply(Result result)

Cut the leading news agency acronym and city from a snippet, for instance from 'MOSCOW (ITAR-TAS) ... some useful information ...', in order to not waste result length

Overrides:

apply in class Filter

Parameters:

result - a Result object

Returns:

the same Result object

apply

public Result[] apply(Result[] results)

Cut the leading news agency acronym and city from a snippet, for instance from 'MOSCOW (ITAR-TAS) ... some useful information ...', in order to not waste result length

Overrides:

apply in class Filter

Parameters:

results - array of Result objects

Returns:

extended array of Result objects