gov.nih.nlm.nls.metamap

Interface Phrase

All Superinterfaces:

MetaMapElement

All Known Implementing Classes:

PhraseImpl

public interface Phrase
extends MetaMapElement

A representation of MetaMap Phrase structure.

Created: Mon May 11 15:17:15 2009

Version:

1.0

Author:

Willie Rogers

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
se.sics.prologbeans.PBTerm	getMincoMan() Get the result of the syntax analysis of the phrase by the minimal commitment parser as a PrologBeans Term Object
String	getMincoManAsString() Get the result of the syntax analysis of the phrase by the minimal commitment parser.
String	getPhraseText() Get original text of phrase.
Position	getPosition() Get position of phrase in the input text.

Method Detail

getPhraseText

String getPhraseText()
              throws Exception

Get original text of phrase.

Returns:

original text of phrase.

Throws:

Exception

getMincoManAsString

String getMincoManAsString()

Get the result of the syntax analysis of the phrase by the minimal commitment parser. See MetaMap Technical Notes, Preliminary processing (http://skr.nlm.nih.gov/papers/references/metamap.tech.pdf, pp 3-4) for more information

Returns:

Syntax analysis output of the minimal commitment parser.

getMincoMan

se.sics.prologbeans.PBTerm getMincoMan()

Get the result of the syntax analysis of the phrase by the minimal commitment parser as a PrologBeans Term Object

Returns:

PrologBeans Term

getPosition

Position getPosition()
              throws Exception

Get position of phrase in the input text.

Returns:

position object containing position of phrase in the input text.

Throws:

Exception