package edu.northwestern.at.utils.corpuslinguistics.postagger.smoothing.lexical;
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import java.util.*;
import edu.northwestern.at.utils.corpuslinguistics.lexicon.*;
import edu.northwestern.at.utils.corpuslinguistics.postagger.*;
import edu.northwestern.at.utils.math.*;
/** Additive lexical smoother.
*
* <p>
* A lexical smoother which adds a small positive value to each
* (word, tag) count to avoid zero probabilities. When the value
* added is 1, this is Laplace smoothing. When the value added is
* 0.5, this is Lidstone smoothing.
* </p>
*
* <p>
* This implementation uses 0.5 as the adjustment value (Lidstone
* smoothing).
* </p>
*/
public class AdditiveLexicalSmoother
extends AbstractLexicalSmoother
implements LexicalSmoother
{
/** True if debugging enabled. */
protected boolean debug = true;
/** Additive adjustment value = 0.5 (Lidstone smoothing).
*/
protected double additiveAdjustmentValue = 0.5D;
/** Create an additive lexical smoother.
*/
public AdditiveLexicalSmoother()
{
super();
}
/** Get lexically smoothed probability of a word given a tag.
*
* @param word The word.
* @param tag The part of speech tag.
*
* @return Lexically smoothed probability of word given tag,
* e.g., p( word | tag ).
*/
public Probability lexicalProbability( String word , String tag )
{
// See if the lexical probability
// p( word | tag ) is in the cache.
Probability result = null;
if ( cachedLexicalProbabilities != null )
{
result = cachedLexicalProbabilities.get( word , tag );
}
// If the probability isn't in the
// cache, compute it.
if ( result == null )
{
// Total number of times this
// tag appeared in the training data.
Lexicon lexicon = partOfSpeechTagger.getLexicon( word );
int tagCount =
Math.max( lexicon.getCategoryCount( tag ) , 1 );
// Total number of times this word
// appeared with this tag in the
// training data.
int catCount =
partOfSpeechTagger.getTagCount( word , tag );
// Set of possible part of speech
// tags for this word.
List<String> tags =
partOfSpeechTagger.getTagsForWord( word );
// Calculate smoothed probability
// using additive smoothing.
double prob =
( catCount + additiveAdjustmentValue ) /
( (double)tagCount +
( additiveAdjustmentValue * tags.size() ) );
// Store computed probability in
// the cache.
try
{
result = new Probability( prob );
}
catch ( Exception e )
{
if ( debug )
{
logger.logError
(
"word=" + word + ", tag=" + tag +
", catCount=" + catCount +
", adj=" + additiveAdjustmentValue +
", tagCount=" + tagCount +
", tags.size=" + tags.size() +
", prob=" + prob
);
}
result = new Probability( 1.0 );
}
if ( cachedLexicalProbabilities != null )
{
cachedLexicalProbabilities.put( word , tag , result );
}
}
return result;
}
}
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