edu.illinois.cs.cogcomp.nesim.data

Class CountryLanguageManager

java.lang.Object

edu.illinois.cs.cogcomp.nesim.data.CountryLanguageManager

public class CountryLanguageManager
extends Object

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
CountryLanguageManager(String countryLangFileName) Constructor to initialize a CountryLanguageManager object, which is used to determine if a string or a pair of strings should be assigned type LOC.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	isCountryLang(String str1, String str2) Returns true if the two strings compared are a country-language pair.
float	scoring(String str1, String str2) Primary scoring function called by EntityComparison.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

CountryLanguageManager

public CountryLanguageManager(String countryLangFileName)
                       throws IOException

Constructor to initialize a CountryLanguageManager object, which is used to determine if a string or a pair of strings should be assigned type LOC.

Parameters:

countryLangFileName - File name to obtain list of country-language strings

Throws:

IOException

Method Detail

scoring

public float scoring(String str1,
                     String str2)

Primary scoring function called by EntityComparison. It scores pairs of strings of type LOC.

Parameters:

str1 - First of two strings being compared

str2 - Second of two strings being compared

Returns:

Float value between 0 and 1 inclusive as the score for comparing two strings designated type LOC

isCountryLang

public boolean isCountryLang(String str1,
                             String str2)

Returns true if the two strings compared are a country-language pair. Only used on strings designated type LOC.

Parameters:

str1 - First of two strings being compared

str2 - Second of two strings being compared

Returns:

A boolean value (true/false) determining whether the pair of strings being compared is a country-language pair