info.ephyra.answerselection.filters
Class CutStatementProviderFilter

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

public class CutStatementProviderFilter
extends Filter

Trims answer candidates for definitional questions to improve the precision by chopping of leading introductions of indirect speech.

This class extends the class Filter.

Version:

2008-02-10

Author:

Guido Sautter

Field Summary

private static java.util.regex.Pattern

PROVIDER_AT_START

Constructor Summary

CutStatementProviderFilter()

Method Summary

Result	apply(Result result) Cut leading or tailing introductory parts of information given in indirect speech.
Result[]	apply(Result[] results) Cut leading or tailing introductory parts of information given in indirect speech.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

PROVIDER_AT_START

private static final java.util.regex.Pattern PROVIDER_AT_START

Constructor Detail

CutStatementProviderFilter

public CutStatementProviderFilter()

Method Detail

apply

public Result apply(Result result)

Cut leading or tailing introductory parts of information given in indirect speech. This is in order to not waste result length with these parts. It would cut, for instance, 'XYZ said that' from 'XYZ said that ... some useful information ...'

Overrides:

apply in class Filter

Parameters:

result - a Result object

Returns:

the same Result object

apply

public Result[] apply(Result[] results)

Cut leading or tailing introductory parts of information given in indirect speech. This is in order to not waste result length with these parts. It would cut, for instance, 'XYZ said that' from 'XYZ said that ... some useful information ...'

Overrides:

apply in class Filter

Parameters:

results - array of Result objects

Returns:

extended array of Result objects