Package nltk :: Package corpus :: Package reader :: Module rte :: Class RTECorpusReader

type RTECorpusReader

         object --+        
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   api.CorpusReader --+    
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xmldocs.XMLCorpusReader --+
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                         RTECorpusReader

Corpus reader for corpora in RTE challenges.

This is just a wrapper around the XMLCorpusReader. See module docstring above for the expected structure of input documents.

Instance Methods

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list of RTEPairs

_read_etree(self, doc)
Map the XML input into an RTEPair.

source code

list of RTEPairs

pairs(self, fileids)
Build a list of RTEPairs from a RTE corpus.

source code

Inherited from xmldocs.XMLCorpusReader: __init__, raw, words, xml

Inherited from api.CorpusReader: __repr__, abspath, abspaths, encoding, fileids, open, readme

Inherited from api.CorpusReader (private): _get_root

Deprecated since 0.8

Inherited from xmldocs.XMLCorpusReader: read

Deprecated since 0.9.7

Inherited from api.CorpusReader: files

Deprecated since 0.9.1

Inherited from api.CorpusReader: items

Inherited from api.CorpusReader (private): _get_items

Instance Variables

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Inherited from api.CorpusReader (private): _encoding, _fileids, _root

Properties

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Inherited from api.CorpusReader: root

Method Details

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_read_etree(self, doc)

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Map the XML input into an RTEPair.

This uses the getiterator() method from the ElementTree package to find all the <pair> elements.

Parameters:

doc - a parsed XML document

Returns: list of RTEPairs

pairs(self, fileids)

source code

Build a list of RTEPairs from a RTE corpus.

Parameters:

fileids - a list of RTE corpus fileids

Returns: list of RTEPairs