uk.ac.man.entitytagger.matching.matchers
Class ConcurrentMatcher

java.lang.Object
  uk.ac.man.entitytagger.matching.matchers.ConcurrentMatcher

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.util.Iterator<Problem<TaggedDocument>>

public class ConcurrentMatcher
extends java.lang.Object
implements java.util.Iterator<Problem<TaggedDocument>>

Class for facilitating concurrent text matching. This class should be used together with martin.common.compthreads.IteratorBasedMaster. A IteratorBasedMaster object is created based on an object of this class, a thread is created from the master object, and match results can be retrieved from the master object. Note that results returned from the master will be TaggedDocument if using the single-matcher constructor, and ArrayList if using the multi-matcher constructor. Sample code: ThreadMatcher tm = new ThreadMatcher(somematcher, somedocuments); IteratorBasedMaster master = new IteratorBasedMaster(tm, somenumberofthreads); new Thread(master).start(); while (master.hasNext()){ TaggedDocument td = (TaggedDocument) master.next(); //do something with the tagged document here } If an array of matchers had been given to the ThreadMatcher constructor, results would have been on the form ArrayList tds = (ArrayList master.next();.

Author:

Martin

Nested Class Summary

class

ConcurrentMatcher.MatchProblem

Field Summary

private DocumentIterator	documents
private Matcher	matcher

Constructor Summary

ConcurrentMatcher(Matcher matcher, DocumentIterator documents)
Create an object which will do matching using a single matcher over a number of documents.

Method Summary

boolean	hasNext()
ConcurrentMatcher.MatchProblem	next()
void	remove()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

matcher

private Matcher matcher

documents

private DocumentIterator documents

Constructor Detail

ConcurrentMatcher

public ConcurrentMatcher(Matcher matcher,
                         DocumentIterator documents)

Create an object which will do matching using a single matcher over a number of documents.

Parameters:

matcher -

documents -

Method Detail

hasNext

public boolean hasNext()

Specified by:

hasNext in interface java.util.Iterator<Problem<TaggedDocument>>

next

public ConcurrentMatcher.MatchProblem next()

Specified by:

next in interface java.util.Iterator<Problem<TaggedDocument>>

remove

public void remove()

Specified by:

remove in interface java.util.Iterator<Problem<TaggedDocument>>