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package org.cleartk.timeml.event;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.uima.UimaContext;
import org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.AnalysisEngineProcessException;
import org.apache.uima.jcas.JCas;
import org.apache.uima.resource.ResourceInitializationException;
import org.cleartk.ml.CleartkAnnotator;
import org.cleartk.ml.Feature;
import org.cleartk.ml.Instance;
import org.cleartk.ml.feature.extractor.CleartkExtractor;
import org.cleartk.ml.feature.extractor.FeatureExtractor1;
import org.cleartk.timeml.type.Event;
import org.cleartk.token.type.Sentence;
import org.cleartk.token.type.Token;
import org.apache.uima.fit.util.JCasUtil;

import com.google.common.collect.Lists;

/**
 * 

 * Copyright (c) 2010, Regents of the University of Colorado 

 * All rights reserved.
 * 
 * Base class for annotators of TimeML EVENT attributes.
 * 
 * @author Steven Bethard
 */
public abstract class EventAttributeAnnotator extends CleartkAnnotator {

  /**
   * The list of feature extractors that will be applied directly to the Event annotation.
   * 
   * Subclasses should override {@link #initialize(org.apache.uima.UimaContext)} to fill this list.
   */
  protected List> eventFeatureExtractors;

  /**
   * The list of feature extractors that will be applied to the Event annotation, with a Sentence
   * window.
   * 
   * Subclasses should override {@link #initialize(org.apache.uima.UimaContext)} to fill this list.
   */
  protected List> contextExtractors;

  /**
   * The attribute value that should be considered as a default, e.g. "NONE". When the attribute
   * value is null in the CAS, this value will be used instead. Additionally, when the classifier
   * produces this value, no attribute will be added.
   * 
   * @return The default attribute value.
   */
  protected abstract OUTCOME_TYPE getDefaultValue();

  /**
   * Get the attribute value from the Event annotation. Typically this will be by calling something
   * like {@link Event#getTense()}.
   * 
   * If this method returns null, {@link #getDefaultValue()} will be called to produce an
   * appropriate attribute value.
   * 
   * @param event
   *          The Event annotation whose attribute is to be retrieved.
   * @return The selected attribute value.
   */
  protected abstract OUTCOME_TYPE getAttribute(Event event);

  /**
   * Set the attribute value on the Event annotation. Typically this will be by calling something
   * like {@link Event#setTense(String)}.
   * 
   * This method will not be called if the value is equal to {@link #getDefaultValue()}.
   * 
   * @param event
   *          The Event annotation whose attribute is to be set.
   * @param value
   *          The new attribute value.
   */
  protected abstract void setAttribute(Event event, OUTCOME_TYPE value);

  @Override
  public void initialize(UimaContext context) throws ResourceInitializationException {
    super.initialize(context);
    this.eventFeatureExtractors = Lists.newArrayList();
    this.contextExtractors = Lists.newArrayList();
  }

  @Override
  public void process(JCas jCas) throws AnalysisEngineProcessException {
    for (Sentence sentence : JCasUtil.select(jCas, Sentence.class)) {
      for (Event event : JCasUtil.selectCovered(jCas, Event.class, sentence)) {

        // assemble features
        List features = new ArrayList();
        for (FeatureExtractor1 extractor : this.eventFeatureExtractors) {
          features.addAll(extractor.extract(jCas, event));
        }
        for (CleartkExtractor extractor : this.contextExtractors) {
          features.addAll(extractor.extractWithin(jCas, event, sentence));
        }

        // if training, determine the attribute value and write the
        // instance
        if (this.isTraining()) {
          OUTCOME_TYPE attribute = this.getAttribute(event);
          if (attribute == null) {
            attribute = this.getDefaultValue();
          }
          Instance instance = new Instance();
          instance.addAll(features);
          instance.setOutcome(attribute);
          this.dataWriter.write(instance);
        }

        // if predicting, propose an attribute value and modify the
        // event annotation
        else {
          OUTCOME_TYPE label = this.classifier.classify(features);
          this.setAttribute(event, label);
        }
      }
    }
  }
}