de.uni_tuebingen.sfb.lichtenstein.treebanks
Class TreebankConverter

java.lang.Object
  de.uni_tuebingen.sfb.lichtenstein.treebanks.TreebankConverter

public class TreebankConverter
extends Object

Transfer trees in NEGRA 3 from TueBaD to MONA format TODO: use Tigerxml

Forces connectedness: no disconnected components, binary branching, Ignore secondary edges

Field Summary

static String	NEGRA_EXPORT_FILE_ENDING The file ending for the treebank file in NEGRA export format.
static String	OBJECT_FILE_ENDING The file ending for the file which contains the binary trees in Java serialized form.

Constructor Summary

TreebankConverter()

Method Summary

static void

convert(File corpFile, File destDir) Convert a corpus file into binary trees.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

NEGRA_EXPORT_FILE_ENDING

public static final String NEGRA_EXPORT_FILE_ENDING

The file ending for the treebank file in NEGRA export format.

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Constant Field Values

OBJECT_FILE_ENDING

public static final String OBJECT_FILE_ENDING

The file ending for the file which contains the binary trees in Java serialized form.

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Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

TreebankConverter

public TreebankConverter()

Method Detail

convert

public static void convert(File corpFile,
                           File destDir)
                    throws IOException,
                           FormatException

Convert a corpus file into binary trees. Every tree in the corpus is converted into a binary tree and written as an object file in the directory where the corpus file is.

Parameters:

corpFile - The corpus file in NEGRA export format.

destDir - The directory where the converted corpus should be saved.

Throws:

IOException - [CAN] Either the given file is corrupted, could not be read or the binary object file could not be written.

FormatException - [CAN] If the format could not be detected, or this is not a NEGRA corpus.