it.cnr.isti.hpc.dexter.rest

Class RestService

java.lang.Object

it.cnr.isti.hpc.dexter.rest.RestService

public class RestService
extends Object

Author:

Diego Ceccarelli Created on Feb 2, 2013

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
RestService()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	annotate(String text, String n) Performs the entity linking on a given text, annotating maximum n entities.
String	getDescription(String id) Given the Wiki-id of an entity, returns a snippet containing some sentences that describe the entity.
String	spot(String text) It only performs the first step of the entity linking process, i.e., find all the mentions that could refer to an entity.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

RestService

public RestService()

Method Detail

annotate

public String annotate(String text,
              String n)

Performs the entity linking on a given text, annotating maximum n entities.

Parameters:

text - the text to annotate

n - the maximum number of entities to annotate

getDescription

public String getDescription(String id)

Given the Wiki-id of an entity, returns a snippet containing some sentences that describe the entity.

Parameters:

id - the Wiki-id of the entity

spot

public String spot(String text)

It only performs the first step of the entity linking process, i.e., find all the mentions that could refer to an entity.

Parameters:

text - the text to spot

Returns:

all the spots detected in the text together with their link probability. For each spot it also returns the list of candidate entities associated with it, together with their commonness.