Click here to Skip to main content
15,886,258 members
Articles / Containers / Virtual Machine

Statistical parsing of English sentences

Rate me:
Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
4.95/5 (88 votes)
13 Dec 200617 min read 987.8K   23.6K   239  
Shows how to generate parse trees for English language sentences, using a C# port of OpenNLP, a statistical natural language parsing library.
//Copyright (C) 2005 Richard J. Northedge
//
// This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
// modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
// License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
// version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
//
// This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
// GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
//
// You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
// License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
// Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.

//This file is based on the POSEventCollector.java and POSEventStream.java source files found in the
//original java implementation of OpenNLP.  Those source files contain the following headers:

// Copyright (C) 2003 Tom Morton
//
// This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
// modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
// License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
// version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
//
// This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
// GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
//
// You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
// License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
// Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.

// Copyright (C) 2002 Jason Baldridge and Gann Bierner
// 
// This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
// modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
// License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
// version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
// 
// This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
// GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
// 
// You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
// License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
// Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.

using System;
using System.Collections;

namespace OpenNLP.Tools.PosTagger
{
	/// <summary> 
	/// An event generator for the maxent POS Tagger.
	/// </summary>
	public class PosEventReader : SharpEntropy.ITrainingEventReader
	{
		private System.IO.TextReader mTextReader;
		private IPosContextGenerator mContextGenerator;
		private ArrayList mEventList = new ArrayList();
		private int mCurrentEvent = 0;
		
		public PosEventReader(System.IO.TextReader data) : this(data, new DefaultPosContextGenerator())
		{
		}

		public PosEventReader(System.IO.TextReader data, IPosContextGenerator contextGenerator)
		{
			mContextGenerator = contextGenerator;
			mTextReader = data;
			string nextLine = mTextReader.ReadLine();
			if (nextLine != null)
			{
				AddEvents(nextLine);
			}
		}
		
		public virtual bool HasNext()
		{
			return (mCurrentEvent < mEventList.Count);
		}
		
		public virtual SharpEntropy.TrainingEvent ReadNextEvent()
		{
			SharpEntropy.TrainingEvent trainingEvent = (SharpEntropy.TrainingEvent)mEventList[mCurrentEvent];
			mCurrentEvent++;
			if (mEventList.Count == mCurrentEvent)
			{
				mCurrentEvent = 0;
				mEventList.Clear();
				string nextLine = mTextReader.ReadLine();
				if (nextLine != null)
				{
					AddEvents(nextLine);
				}
			}
			return trainingEvent;
		}

		private void AddEvents(string line)
		{
			Util.Pair linePair = ConvertAnnotatedString(line);
			ArrayList tokens = (ArrayList) linePair.A;
			ArrayList outcomes = (ArrayList) linePair.B;
			ArrayList tags = new ArrayList();
					
			for (int currentToken = 0; currentToken < tokens.Count; currentToken++)
			{
				string[] context = mContextGenerator.GetContext(currentToken, tokens.ToArray(), (string[]) tags.ToArray(typeof(string)), null);
				SharpEntropy.TrainingEvent posTrainingEvent = new SharpEntropy.TrainingEvent((string) outcomes[currentToken], context);
				tags.Add(outcomes[currentToken]);
				mEventList.Add(posTrainingEvent);
			}
		}

		private static Util.Pair Split(string input)
		{
			int splitPosition = input.LastIndexOf("_");
			if (splitPosition == -1)
			{
				System.Console.Out.WriteLine("There is a problem in your training data: " + input + " does not conform to the format WORD_TAG.");
				return new Util.Pair(input, "UNKNOWN");
			}
			return new Util.Pair(input.Substring(0, (splitPosition) - (0)), input.Substring(splitPosition + 1));
		}
		
		public static Util.Pair ConvertAnnotatedString(string input)
		{
			ArrayList tokens = new ArrayList();
			ArrayList outcomes = new ArrayList();
			Util.StringTokenizer tokenizer = new Util.StringTokenizer(input);
			string token = tokenizer.NextToken();
			while (token != null)
			{
				Util.Pair linePair = Split(token);
				tokens.Add(linePair.A);
				outcomes.Add(linePair.B);
				token = tokenizer.NextToken();
			}
			return new Util.Pair(tokens, outcomes);
		}
			
//		[STAThread]
//		public static void Main(string[] args)
//		{
//			string sData = "the_DT stories_NNS about_IN well-heeled_JJ communities_NNS and_CC developers_NNS";
//			EventCollector oEventCollector = new PosEventCollector(new System.IO.StringReader(sData), new DefaultPosContextGenerator());
//			Event[] aoEvents = oEventCollector.GetEvents();
//			for (int iCurrentEvent = 0; iCurrentEvent < aoEvents.length; iCurrentEvent++)
//			{
//				System.Console.Out.WriteLine(aoEvents[iCurrentEvent].GetOutcome());
//			}
//		}
	}
}

By viewing downloads associated with this article you agree to the Terms of Service and the article's licence.

If a file you wish to view isn't highlighted, and is a text file (not binary), please let us know and we'll add colourisation support for it.

License

This article has no explicit license attached to it but may contain usage terms in the article text or the download files themselves. If in doubt please contact the author via the discussion board below.

A list of licenses authors might use can be found here


Written By
Web Developer
United Kingdom United Kingdom
Richard Northedge is a senior developer with a UK Microsoft Gold Partner company. He has a postgraduate degree in English Literature, has been programming professionally since 1998 and has been an MCSD since 2000.

Comments and Discussions