eu.clarin.weblicht.wlfxb.tc.api
Interface TextStructureLayer

All Superinterfaces:

TextCorpusLayer

All Known Implementing Classes:

TextStructureLayerStored

public interface TextStructureLayer
extends TextCorpusLayer

The TextStructureLayer preserves the original structure of a written text. Within the layer, a token sequence can be annotated as belonging to some text structure element, such as to a page, a paragraph, a line, a title, etc. textspan element represents text structure annotation on a token sequence. The token sequence is specified by start token id and end token id. The type of the text structure element is specified by the corresponding attribute.

Author:

Yana Panchenko

Method Summary

TextSpan	addSpan(TextSpan parentSpan, Token spanStart, Token spanEnd, String type)
TextSpan	addSpan(TextSpan parentSpan, Token spanStart, Token spanEnd, String type, String value)
TextSpan	addSpan(Token spanStart, Token spanEnd, String type)
TextSpan	addSpan(Token spanStart, Token spanEnd, String type, String value)
TextSpan	getSpan(int index)
TextSpan	getSpan(Token token, String type)
List<TextSpan>	getSpans(String type)
List<TextSpan>	getSpans(Token token)
Token[]	getTokens(TextSpan span)

Methods inherited from interface eu.clarin.weblicht.wlfxb.tc.api.TextCorpusLayer

isEmpty, size

Method Detail

getSpan

TextSpan getSpan(int index)

getSpans

List<TextSpan> getSpans(Token token)

getSpan

TextSpan getSpan(Token token,
                 String type)

getSpans

List<TextSpan> getSpans(String type)

getTokens

Token[] getTokens(TextSpan span)

addSpan

TextSpan addSpan(Token spanStart,
                 Token spanEnd,
                 String type)

addSpan

TextSpan addSpan(Token spanStart,
                 Token spanEnd,
                 String type,
                 String value)

addSpan

TextSpan addSpan(TextSpan parentSpan,
                 Token spanStart,
                 Token spanEnd,
                 String type)
                 throws WLFormatException

Throws:

WLFormatException

addSpan

TextSpan addSpan(TextSpan parentSpan,
                 Token spanStart,
                 Token spanEnd,
                 String type,
                 String value)
                 throws WLFormatException

Throws:

WLFormatException