com.bericotech.clavin.extractor
Class ApacheExtractor

java.lang.Object
  com.bericotech.clavin.extractor.ApacheExtractor

All Implemented Interfaces:

LocationExtractor

public class ApacheExtractor
extends Object
implements LocationExtractor

Extracts location names from unstructured text documents using a named entity recognizer (Apache OpenNLP Name Finder).

Constructor Summary

ApacheExtractor()
Builds an ApacheExtractor by instantiating the OpenNLP Name Finder and Tokenizer.

Method Summary

List<LocationOccurrence>

extractLocationNames(String plainText) Extracts location names from unstructured text using the named entity recognizer (NER) feature provided by the Apache OpenNLP Name Finder.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

ApacheExtractor

public ApacheExtractor()
                throws IOException

Builds an ApacheExtractor by instantiating the OpenNLP Name Finder and Tokenizer.

Throws:

IOException

Method Detail

extractLocationNames

public List<LocationOccurrence> extractLocationNames(String plainText)

Extracts location names from unstructured text using the named entity recognizer (NER) feature provided by the Apache OpenNLP Name Finder.

Specified by:

extractLocationNames in interface LocationExtractor

Parameters:

plainText - Contents of text document

Returns:

List of location names and positions