edu.stanford.nlp.trees
Class BobChrisTreeNormalizer

java.lang.Object
  edu.stanford.nlp.trees.TreeNormalizer
      edu.stanford.nlp.trees.BobChrisTreeNormalizer

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable

Direct Known Subclasses:

CharacterLevelTagExtender, NPTmpRetainingTreeNormalizer

public class BobChrisTreeNormalizer
extends TreeNormalizer

Normalizes trees in the way used in Manning and Carpenter 1997. NB: This implementation is still incomplete! The normalizations performed are: (i) terminals are interned, (ii) nonterminals are stripped of alternants, functional tags and cross-reference codes, and then interned, (iii) empty elements (ones with nonterminal label "-NONE-") are deleted from the tree, (iv) the null label at the root node is replaced with the label "ROOT".
17 Apr 2001: This was fixed to work with different kinds of labels, by making proper use of the Label interface, after it was moved into the trees module.

The normalizations of the original (Prolog) BobChrisNormalize were: 1. Remap the root node to be called 'ROOT' 2. Truncate all nonterminal labels before characters introducing annotations according to TreebankLanguagePack (traditionally, -, =, | or # (last for BLLIP)) 3. Remap the representation of certain leaf symbols (brackets etc.) 4. Map to lowercase all leaf nodes 5. Delete empty/trace nodes (ones marked '-NONE-') 6. Recursively delete any nodes that do not dominate any words 7. Delete A over A nodes where the top A dominates nothing else 8. Remove backquotes from lexical items (the Treebank inserts them to escape slashes (/) and stars (*) 4 is deliberately omitted, and a few things are purely aesthetic.

14 June 2002: It now deletes unary A over A if both nodes labels are equal (7), and (6) was always part of the Tree.prune() functionality... 30 June 2005: Also splice out an EDITED node, just in case you're parsing the Brown corpus.

Author:

Christopher Manning

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

protected TreebankLanguagePack

tlp

Constructor Summary

BobChrisTreeNormalizer()

BobChrisTreeNormalizer(TreebankLanguagePack tlp)

Method Summary

protected String	cleanUpLabel(String label) Remove things like hyphened functional tags and equals from the end of a node label.
String	normalizeNonterminal(String category) Normalizes a nonterminal contents.
String	normalizeTerminal(String leaf) Normalizes a leaf contents.
Tree	normalizeWholeTree(Tree tree, TreeFactory tf) Normalize a whole tree -- one can assume that this is the root.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

tlp

protected final TreebankLanguagePack tlp

Constructor Detail

BobChrisTreeNormalizer

public BobChrisTreeNormalizer()

BobChrisTreeNormalizer

public BobChrisTreeNormalizer(TreebankLanguagePack tlp)

Method Detail

normalizeTerminal

public String normalizeTerminal(String leaf)

Normalizes a leaf contents. This implementation interns the leaf.

Overrides:

normalizeTerminal in class TreeNormalizer

Parameters:

leaf - The String that decorates the leaf

Returns:

The normalized form of this leaf String

normalizeNonterminal

public String normalizeNonterminal(String category)

Normalizes a nonterminal contents. This implementation strips functional tags, etc. and interns the nonterminal.

Overrides:

normalizeNonterminal in class TreeNormalizer

Parameters:

category - The String that decorates this nonterminal node

Returns:

The normalized form of this nonterminal String

normalizeWholeTree

public Tree normalizeWholeTree(Tree tree,
                               TreeFactory tf)

Normalize a whole tree -- one can assume that this is the root. This implementation deletes empty elements (ones with nonterminal tag label '-NONE-') from the tree, and splices out unary A over A nodes. It does work for a null tree.

Overrides:

normalizeWholeTree in class TreeNormalizer

Parameters:

tree - The tree to be normalized

tf - the TreeFactory to create new nodes (if needed)

Returns:

Tree the normalized tree

cleanUpLabel

protected String cleanUpLabel(String label)

Remove things like hyphened functional tags and equals from the end of a node label.