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package opennlp.tools.chunker;
import opennlp.tools.util.BeamSearchContextGenerator;
/**
* Interface for the context generator used in syntactic chunking.
*/
public interface ChunkerContextGenerator extends BeamSearchContextGenerator {
/**
* Returns the contexts for chunking of the specified index.
* @param i The index of the token in the specified toks array for which the context should be constructed.
* @param toks The tokens of the sentence. The toString methods of these objects should return the token text.
* @param tags The POS tags for the the specified tokens.
* @param preds The previous decisions made in the taging of this sequence. Only indices less than i will be examined.
* @return An array of predictive contexts on which a model basis its decisions.
*/
public String[] getContext(int i, String[] toks, String[] tags, String[] preds);
}