Class HMMPOSTagger

java.lang.Object

smile.nlp.pos.HMMPOSTagger

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, POSTagger

public class HMMPOSTagger
extends Object
implements POSTagger, Serializable

Part-of-speech tagging with hidden Markov model.

See Also:

• Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
HMMPOSTagger()	Constructor.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static HMMPOSTagger	fit(String[][] sentences, PennTreebankPOS[][] labels)	Fits an HMM POS tagger by maximum likelihood estimation.
static HMMPOSTagger	getDefault()	Returns the default English POS tagger.
static void	main(String[] args)	Train the default model on WSJ and BROWN datasets.
static void	read(Path dir, List<String[]> sentences, List<PennTreebankPOS[]> labels)	Load training data from a corpora.
PennTreebankPOS[]	tag(String[] sentence)	Tags the sentence in the form of a sequence of words.
static void	walkin(File dir, List<File> files)	Recursive function to descend into the directory tree and find all the files that end with ".POS"

Methods inherited from class Object

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

Constructor Details

HMMPOSTagger

public HMMPOSTagger()

Constructor. Creates an empty model. For Serialization only.

Method Details

getDefault

public static HMMPOSTagger getDefault()

Returns the default English POS tagger.

Returns:

the default English POS tagger

tag

public PennTreebankPOS[] tag(String[] sentence)

Description copied from interface: POSTagger

Tags the sentence in the form of a sequence of words.

Specified by:

tag in interface POSTagger

Parameters:

sentence - the sentence.

Returns:

the POS tags.

fit

public static HMMPOSTagger fit(String[][] sentences,
 PennTreebankPOS[][] labels)

Fits an HMM POS tagger by maximum likelihood estimation.

Parameters:

sentences - the training sentences.

labels - the training labels.

Returns:

the model.

read

public static void read(Path dir,
 List<String[]> sentences,
 List<PennTreebankPOS[]> labels)

Load training data from a corpora.

Parameters:

dir - the top directory of training data.

sentences - the output list of training sentences.

labels - the output list of training labels.

walkin

public static void walkin(File dir,
 List<File> files)

Recursive function to descend into the directory tree and find all the files that end with ".POS"

Parameters:

dir - the top directory of training data.

files - the output list of training files.

main

public static void main(String[] args)

Train the default model on WSJ and BROWN datasets.

Parameters:

args - the command line arguments.