opennlp.tools.chunker.ChunkerEvaluator Maven / Gradle / Ivy
/*
* Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
* contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
* this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
* The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
* (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
* the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
*
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
* limitations under the License.
*/
package opennlp.tools.chunker;
import opennlp.tools.util.eval.Evaluator;
import opennlp.tools.util.eval.FMeasure;
/**
* The {@link ChunkerEvaluator} measures the performance
* of the given {@link Chunker} with the provided
* reference {@link ChunkSample}s.
*
* @see Evaluator
* @see Chunker
* @see ChunkSample
*/
public class ChunkerEvaluator extends Evaluator {
private FMeasure fmeasure = new FMeasure();
/**
* The {@link Chunker} used to create the predicted
* {@link ChunkSample} objects.
*/
private Chunker chunker;
/**
* Initializes the current instance with the given
* {@link Chunker}.
*
* @param chunker the {@link Chunker} to evaluate.
*/
public ChunkerEvaluator(Chunker chunker) {
this.chunker = chunker;
}
/**
* Evaluates the given reference {@link ChunkSample} object.
*
* This is done by finding the phrases with the
* {@link Chunker} in the sentence from the reference
* {@link ChunkSample}. The found phrases are then used to
* calculate and update the scores.
*
* @param reference the reference {@link ChunkSample}.
*/
public void evaluateSample(ChunkSample reference) {
String[] preds = chunker.chunk(reference.getSentence(), reference.getTags());
ChunkSample result = new ChunkSample(reference.getSentence(), reference.getTags(), preds);
fmeasure.updateScores(reference.getPhrasesAsSpanList(), result.getPhrasesAsSpanList());
}
public FMeasure getFMeasure() {
return fmeasure;
}
}