edu.stanford.nlp.parser

Interface ViterbiParser

All Superinterfaces:

Parser

All Known Subinterfaces:

KBestViterbiParser, ViterbiParserWithOptions

All Known Implementing Classes:

BiLexPCFGParser, BiLexPCFGParser.N5BiLexPCFGParser, ExhaustiveDependencyParser, ExhaustivePCFGParser, FastFactoredParser, IterativeCKYPCFGParser

public interface ViterbiParser
extends Parser

The interface for Viterbi parsers. Viterbi parsers support getBestParse, which returns a best parse of the input, or null if no parse exists.

Author:

Dan Klein

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Tree	getBestParse() Returns a best parse of the last sentence on which parse was called, or null if none exists.

Methods inherited from interface edu.stanford.nlp.parser.Parser

parse

Method Detail

getBestParse

Tree getBestParse()

Returns a best parse of the last sentence on which parse was called, or null if none exists.

Returns:

The tree for the best parse