[OPENNLP-62] Chunker should output chunks also as Spans

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: tools-1.5.1-incubating
• Component/s: Chunker
• Assignee: William Colen
• Reporter: Jörn Kottmann
• Created: 12/Jan/11 12:10
• Updated: 28/Jan/11 12:40
• Resolved: 28/Jan/11 12:35

Description

The chunker currently takes a string array as input and outputs a tag for each input string.

The interface should be extended in a way that it can output an array of Spans instead, where
each Span contains the type, and the begin/end offset in the input array. Like the name finder
does. Like its done by ChunkSample.getPhrasesAsSpanList().