Uses of Class
org.opensextant.extractors.geo.PlaceCandidate

Packages that use PlaceCandidate

Package	Description
org.opensextant.extractors.geo	Geo Extraction: PlaceGeocoder, SolrGazetteer, GazetteerMatcher and related items
org.opensextant.extractors.geo.rules	GeocodeRules
org.opensextant.extractors.geo.social	Social Geoinferencing

Uses of PlaceCandidate in org.opensextant.extractors.geo

Methods in org.opensextant.extractors.geo that return types with arguments of type PlaceCandidate

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Collection<PlaceCandidate>	PlaceCandidate.getRelated()
List<PlaceCandidate>	GazetteerMatcher.tagText(String buffer, String docid)	Geotag a buffer and return all candidates of gazetteer entries whose name matches phrases in the buffer.
List<PlaceCandidate>	GazetteerMatcher.tagText(String buffer, String docid, boolean tagOnly)
List<PlaceCandidate>	GazetteerMatcher.tagText(String buffer, String docid, boolean tagOnly, String fld)
List<PlaceCandidate>	GazetteerMatcher.tagText(org.opensextant.data.TextInput t, boolean tagOnly)	More convenient way of passing input args, using tuple TextInput (buffer, docid, langid)
List<PlaceCandidate>	GazetteerMatcher.tagText(org.opensextant.data.TextInput input, boolean tagOnly, String fld)	Geotag a document, returning PlaceCandidates for the mentions in document.

Methods in org.opensextant.extractors.geo with parameters of type PlaceCandidate

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	PlaceCandidate.addRelated(PlaceCandidate pc)	Connect another match to this one, usually something cooccurring or collocated with this match
boolean	TagFilter.filterOut(PlaceCandidate t, String langId, boolean docIsUpper, boolean docIsLower)	Experimental.
boolean	PlaceCandidate.linkGeography(PlaceCandidate otherMention, String slot, String featPrefix)	Link geographic mention from other part of the document.
void	PlaceCandidate.linkGeography(PlaceCandidate otherMention, String slot, org.opensextant.data.Place geo)	Foricbly link geography to the given slot.
static boolean	PostalGeocoder.linkGeography(PlaceCandidate postal, PlaceCandidate otherMention, String slot, String featPrefix)
static boolean	PostalGeocoder.unqualifiedPostalLocation(PlaceCandidate match)

Method parameters in org.opensextant.extractors.geo with type arguments of type PlaceCandidate

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static void	PostalGeocoder.associateMatches(List<PlaceCandidate> matches, List<PlaceCandidate> postalMatches)	Given geotagging from a prior pass of PlaceGeocoder or other stuff, compare and align those tags with POSTAL tags.
static List<org.opensextant.extraction.TextMatch>	PostalGeocoder.deriveMatches(List<PlaceCandidate> postalMatches, org.opensextant.data.TextInput t)	For situations of the form:

Uses of PlaceCandidate in org.opensextant.extractors.geo.rules

Methods in org.opensextant.extractors.geo.rules with parameters of type PlaceCandidate

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	LocationChooserRule.assessConfidence(PlaceCandidate pc)	Confidence of your final chosen location for a given name is assembled as the sum of some absolute metric plus some additional qualifiers.
void	NonsenseFilter.assessPhoneticMatch(PlaceCandidate p)	Assess the validity of a match candidate with the geographic names associated with it.
static boolean	NonsenseFilter.assessPunctuation(PlaceCandidate p)	optimize punctuation detection and filtration.
void	ContextualOrganizationRule.evaluate(PlaceCandidate name, org.opensextant.data.Place geo)
void	CoordinateAssociationRule.evaluate(PlaceCandidate name, org.opensextant.data.Place geo)	If a particular geo is close to a candidate name/location, then add to the candidate's score for that location.
void	CountryRule.evaluate(PlaceCandidate name, org.opensextant.data.Place geo)	Assess which candidate tags are references to countries.
void	FeatureRule.evaluate(PlaceCandidate name, org.opensextant.data.Place geo)	Deprecated. Feature score is now provided as part of id_bias
abstract void	GeocodeRule.evaluate(PlaceCandidate name, org.opensextant.data.Place geo)	The one evaluation scheme that all rules must implement.
void	HeatMapRule.evaluate(PlaceCandidate name, org.opensextant.data.Place geo)
void	LocationChooserRule.evaluate(PlaceCandidate name, org.opensextant.data.Place geo)	Yet unchosen location.
void	MajorPlaceRule.evaluate(PlaceCandidate name, org.opensextant.data.Place geo)	attach either a Capital or Admin region ID, giving it some weight based on various properties or context.
void	NameCodeRule.evaluate(PlaceCandidate name, org.opensextant.data.Place geo)
void	NameRule.evaluate(PlaceCandidate name, org.opensextant.data.Place geo)
void	NonLatinNameRule.evaluate(PlaceCandidate name, org.opensextant.data.Place geo)
void	NonsenseFilter.evaluate(PlaceCandidate name, org.opensextant.data.Place geo)
void	PersonNameFilter.evaluate(PlaceCandidate name, org.opensextant.data.Place geo)
void	PostalCodeAssociationRule.evaluate(PlaceCandidate name, org.opensextant.data.Place geo)
void	PostalCodeFilter.evaluate(PlaceCandidate name, org.opensextant.data.Place geo)
void	PostalLocationChooser.evaluate(PlaceCandidate name, org.opensextant.data.Place geo)
void	ProvinceAssociationRule.evaluate(PlaceCandidate name, org.opensextant.data.Place geo)
void	ProvinceNameSetter.evaluate(PlaceCandidate name, org.opensextant.data.Place geo)
boolean	GeocodeRule.filterByNameOnly(PlaceCandidate name)	Override here as needed.
boolean	NonLatinNameRule.filterByNameOnly(PlaceCandidate name)
protected boolean	GeocodeRule.filterOutByFrequency(PlaceCandidate name, org.opensextant.data.Place geo)	Certain names appear often around the world...
static boolean	RuleTool.hasOnlyDefaultRules(PlaceCandidate pc)	test if candidate match has trivial evidence.
static boolean	MajorPlaceRule.isRuleFor(PlaceCandidate pc)	Determine if this rule was applied to the candidate.
static boolean	NameCodeRule.isRuleFor(PlaceCandidate name)
void	GeocodeRule.sameLexicalName(PlaceCandidate name, org.opensextant.data.Place geo)	Increment score for lexical matches accoringly: - non-ASCII match: 2.5 pts - ASCII match: 1.5 pts - Case insenstive match: 0.5 pts Simple example, with one char in Name match, one char in Geo Name ø = ø 2.5 o = o 1.5 O = O 1.5 O = o 0.5 Mention ? Gazetteer Entry Boston != Bøstøn, no points.

Method parameters in org.opensextant.extractors.geo.rules with type arguments of type PlaceCandidate

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	ContextualOrganizationRule.evaluate(List<PlaceCandidate> names)
void	CountryRule.evaluate(List<PlaceCandidate> names)
void	GeocodeRule.evaluate(List<PlaceCandidate> names)
void	HeatMapRule.evaluate(List<PlaceCandidate> names)	Identify the distinct potential named places by location Group places by geohash bins at two levels geohash 3 and geohash 4.
void	LocationChooserRule.evaluate(List<PlaceCandidate> names)
void	LocationChooserRule.evaluate(List<PlaceCandidate> names, org.opensextant.processing.Parameters preferences)	Walk the entire list.
void	MajorPlaceRule.evaluate(List<PlaceCandidate> names)
void	NameCodeRule.evaluate(List<PlaceCandidate> names)
void	NameRule.evaluate(List<PlaceCandidate> names)
void	NonsenseFilter.evaluate(List<PlaceCandidate> names)	Evaluate the name in each list of names.
void	PersonNameFilter.evaluate(List<PlaceCandidate> names)	Evaluate the place name purely based on previous rules or the lexical nature of the name, and not any geography, so this parent method is overriden and returns True always.
void	PostalCodeAssociationRule.evaluate(List<PlaceCandidate> names)
void	PostalCodeFilter.evaluate(List<PlaceCandidate> names)
void	PostalLocationChooser.evaluate(List<PlaceCandidate> names)
void	ProvinceAssociationRule.evaluate(List<PlaceCandidate> names)	Evaluate all candidate place mentions by seeing if any resolved Province contains any geo locations with the mentioned name.
void	ProvinceNameSetter.evaluate(List<PlaceCandidate> names)	Apply a Province name to a chosen place
void	PersonNameFilter.evaluateNamedEntities(org.opensextant.data.TextInput input, List<PlaceCandidate> placeNames, List<TaxonMatch> persons, List<TaxonMatch> orgs, List<TaxonMatch> others)	Use known person names to distinguish well-known persons that may or may not overlap in in the text and the namespace.

Uses of PlaceCandidate in org.opensextant.extractors.geo.social

Methods in org.opensextant.extractors.geo.social with parameters of type PlaceCandidate

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static boolean	XponentTextGeotagger.filterOut(PlaceCandidate m)	WARNING: Copy of Deepeye Pipes default geotag filter.