Sieve (Dr. Inventor Text Mining Library (UPF) 4.0 API)

java.lang.Object
- edu.upf.taln.dri.module.coref.sieve.Sieve

Direct Known Subclasses:

AppositionSieve, ExactMatchSieve, PredicateNominativeSieve, PronounSieve, RelativePronounSieve, RelaxedMatchSieve
```
public abstract class Sieve
extends Object
```
Generic co-reference sieve.

Constructor Summary

Constructors
Constructor Description

Sieve(SieveTypeEnum st, int maxSentDistance)

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Concrete Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`void`	`applySieve(CorefChainBuilder corefBuilder)`	Apply a co-reference sieve to all the candidate mentions of a text that are not skipped by the CorefChainBuilder.skipMention method.
`SieveTypeEnum`	`getSt()`

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

- Constructor Detail
  - Sieve
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public Sieve(SieveTypeEnum st,
             int maxSentDistance)
```
- Method Detail
  - getSt
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public SieveTypeEnum getSt()
```
  - applySieve
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public void applySieve(CorefChainBuilder corefBuilder)
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    Apply a co-reference sieve to all the candidate mentions of a text that are not skipped by the CorefChainBuilder.skipMention method. The default visiting order of candidate co-reference mentions is from the first to the last sentence and in each sentence from the last to the first candidate co-reference mention. ORDER OF ANTECEDENT CHECK IN A SENTENCE: For each candidate co-reference mention the candidate co-reference antecedents are checked starting from the same sentence backwards up to the beginning of the text. The order of candidate co-reference antecedents in eachs entence is defined by the implementation of the method: getOrderedAntecedentList. CHECK IF THE CANDIDATE COREFERENCE MATCH AN ANTECEDENT: The implementation of the method checkCorefMatch checks if the candidate co-reference mention and a candidate co-reference antecedent match. For each candidate co-reference mention we match the first antecedent among those visited, then we consider the next candidate co-reference mention and search for its antecedents. The coreference chains of the corefBuilder are properly modified.
    
    Parameters:
    
    corefBuilder -