com.bericotech.clavin

Class GeoParser

java.lang.Object

com.bericotech.clavin.GeoParser

public class GeoParser
extends Object

Performs geoparsing of documents; extracts location names from unstructured text and resolves them against a gazetteer to produce structured geo data. Main API entry point for CLAVIN -- simply instantiate this class and call the parse(java.lang.String) method on your text string.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
GeoParser(LocationExtractor extractor, Gazetteer gazetteer, int maxHitDepth, int maxContextWindow, boolean fuzzy) Default constructor.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
List<ResolvedLocation>	parse(String inputText) Takes an unstructured text document (as a String), extracts the location names contained therein, and resolves them into geographic entities representing the best match for those location names.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

GeoParser

public GeoParser(LocationExtractor extractor,
         Gazetteer gazetteer,
         int maxHitDepth,
         int maxContextWindow,
         boolean fuzzy)

Default constructor.

Parameters:

extractor - extracts location names from text

gazetteer - resolves location names to gazetteer

maxHitDepth - the maximum hit depth

maxContextWindow - the maximum context window

fuzzy - switch to turn on/off fuzzy matching

Method Detail

parse

public List<ResolvedLocation> parse(String inputText)
                             throws Exception

Takes an unstructured text document (as a String), extracts the location names contained therein, and resolves them into geographic entities representing the best match for those location names.

Parameters:

inputText - unstructured text to be processed

Returns:

list of geo entities resolved from text

Throws:

Exception