info.ephyra.indexing
Class AQUAINT2Preprocessor

java.lang.Object
  info.ephyra.indexing.AQUAINT2Preprocessor

public class AQUAINT2Preprocessor
extends java.lang.Object

A preprocessor for the AQUAINT-2 corpus:

• adds paragraph tags for document types 'multi', 'advis' and 'other'
• converts documents to 'trectext' format required by Indri

Version:

2007-07-14

Author:

Nico Schlaefer

Field Summary

private static java.lang.String

dir Directory of the AQUAINT corpus

Constructor Summary

AQUAINT2Preprocessor()

Method Summary

private static boolean	addParagraphTags() Adds paragraph tags to documents of type 'multi', 'advis' and 'other'.
private static boolean	convertToTrectext() Converts the documents to the 'trectext' format required by Indri.
static void	main(java.lang.String[] args) Entry point of the program.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

dir

private static java.lang.String dir

Directory of the AQUAINT corpus

Constructor Detail

AQUAINT2Preprocessor

public AQUAINT2Preprocessor()

Method Detail

addParagraphTags

private static boolean addParagraphTags()

Adds paragraph tags to documents of type 'multi', 'advis' and 'other'. Documents of type 'story' are usually already tagged.

Returns:

true, iff the preprocessing was successful

convertToTrectext

private static boolean convertToTrectext()

Converts the documents to the 'trectext' format required by Indri.

Returns:

true, iff the preprocessing was successful

main

public static void main(java.lang.String[] args)

Entry point of the program.

Preprocesses the AQUAINT-2 corpus.

Parameters:

args - argument 1: directory of the AQUAINT-2 corpus