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// The MIT License
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// Copyright (c) 2010 Stelios Karabasakis
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package filters;

import indexing.PosTag;
import indexing.ReviewTermPayload;
import indexing.Token;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import org.apache.commons.lang.ArrayUtils;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenFilter;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenStream;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.tokenattributes.PayloadAttribute;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.tokenattributes.TermAttribute;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.tokenattributes.TypeAttribute;
import util.AppLogger;
import config.Globals;

/**
 * A {@link TokenFilter} which <strong>consumes</strong> a POS-tagged {@link TokenStream} where
 * part-of-speech tags are provided as {@link TypeAttribute} values and <strong>produces</strong> a
 * {@code TokenStream} with the following features:
 * <ul>
 * <li>all named entities, i.e. proper nouns, are marked as such in the token's payload
 * <li>consecutive proper nouns, such as a first name followed by a a last name, are concatenated
 * into a single named entity
 * <li>all other tokens are left intact
 * </ul>
 * 
 * @author Stelios Karabasakis
 */
public class NamedEntityFilter extends TokenFilter {

    /*
     * A temporary buffer for the tokens that make up the phrase that is currently being processed
     * by the TokenFilter
     */
    private ArrayList<Token> currentTokens = new ArrayList<Token>();

    /*
     * Attributes of the input stream that is consumed by this filter
     */
    private TermAttribute input_term;
    private TypeAttribute input_type;
    private PayloadAttribute input_payload;

    /*
     * Attributes for the output TokenStream that is produced by this filter
     */
    private TermAttribute output_term;
    private TypeAttribute output_type;
    private PayloadAttribute output_payload;

    /**
     * Constructor for class NamedEntityFilter
     * 
     * @param input
     *            The input {@link TokenStream}
     */
    public NamedEntityFilter(TokenStream input) {
        super(input);

        // Getting attributes from input stream
        input_term = input.getAttribute(TermAttribute.class);
        input_type = input.getAttribute(TypeAttribute.class);
        input_payload = input.getAttribute(PayloadAttribute.class);

        // Setting attributes for this stream
        output_term = this.addAttribute(TermAttribute.class);
        output_type = this.addAttribute(TypeAttribute.class);
        output_payload = this.addAttribute(PayloadAttribute.class);

    }

    /* (non-Javadoc)
     * @see org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenStream#incrementToken()
     */
    @Override
    public boolean incrementToken() throws IOException {
        // Load next phrase into the buffer, if necessary. And if no next phrase exists, return false.
        if (currentTokens.isEmpty()) {
            if (incrementPhrase()) {
                unifyAllNamedEntities();
            } else
                return false;
        }

        // Return current token
        Token token_to_return = currentTokens.remove(0);
        output_term.setTermBuffer(token_to_return.term);
        output_type.setType(token_to_return.type);
        output_payload.setPayload(token_to_return.payload.getPayload());

        return true;
    }

    /*
     * Default value for members neStart and neEnd
     */
    private static final Integer UNSET = -1;

    /*
     * Marks the start position (inclusive) of a named entity in the list of currentTokens
     */
    private Integer neStart = UNSET;

    /*
     * Marks the end position (inclusive) of a named entity in the list of currentTokens
     */
    private Integer neEnd = UNSET;

    private void unifyAllNamedEntities() {
        int base = 0;
        while (findNextNamedEntity(base)) {
            concatNamedEntity();
            base = neStart + 1;
        }
    }

    private boolean findNextNamedEntity(Integer base) {
        Token current_token;
        resetNamedEntityPosition();
        for (int index = base; index < currentTokens.size(); index++) {
            current_token = currentTokens.get(index);

            if (isPotentialNamedEntityMember(current_token, index)) {
                if (neStart == UNSET) {
                    neStart = index;
                }
                neEnd = index;
            } else if (!isPotentialNamedEntityGlue(current_token)) {
                if (neStart != UNSET)
                    return true;
            }
        }

        return neStart != UNSET ? true : false;
    }

    private void resetNamedEntityPosition() {
        neStart = UNSET;
        neEnd = UNSET;
    }

    private void concatNamedEntity() {
        if (neStart == UNSET) {
            AppLogger.error.log(Level.WARNING, "In method concatNamedEntity: Unspecified index values");
            return;
        }

        Token concat_token = currentTokens.get(neStart);
        int current_token_index = neStart + 1;
        for (int index = neStart + 1; index <= neEnd; index++) {
            Token current_token = currentTokens.get(current_token_index);
            concat_token.term = concat_token.term + " " + current_token.term;
            currentTokens.remove(current_token_index);
        }

        concat_token.type = "NNP";
        concat_token.payload.setProper(true);
    }

    /*
     * Returns whether a given token could be a named entity -- or take part in one
     */
    private boolean isPotentialNamedEntityMember(Token token, int index) {
        // A token is a potential Named Entity member if it has been tagged as proper noun by the
        // POS tagger or if it begins with a capital letter but is not the first word of a sentence
        return PosTag.isProper(token.type) //
                || index != 0 && beginsWithCapitalLetter(token.term);
    }

    private static final String[] glueTypes = { "CC", "DT", "IN", "TO" };

    /*
     * Returns whether a given token could be named entity glue, i.e. a preposition, article,
     * conjunction or "to" which is part of a named entity (such as the title of a movie)
     */
    private boolean isPotentialNamedEntityGlue(Token token) {
        // A non-capitalized word could be part of a named entity iff it is 4 characters long or
        // less and is carries one of the following POS-tags: CC, DT, IN, TO
        // For explanation, see http://grammartips.homestead.com/caps.html
        return token.term.length() <= 4 && ArrayUtils.contains(glueTypes, token.type);
    }

    /*
     * Returns whether a given word's first letter is capital. English only.
     */
    private boolean beginsWithCapitalLetter(String word) {
        try {
            char first_letter = word.charAt(0);
            return first_letter >= 'A' && first_letter <= 'Z' && word.length() > 1;
        } catch (ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException e) {
            return false;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Loads the next phrase from the input {@code TokenStream} as a list of {@code Token}s into a
     * temporary buffer. A phrase is defined as a a self-contained text segment between two
     * punctuation marks.
     * 
     * @return false if there are no more phrases to be read from the input {@code TokenStream},
     *         otherwise true
     * @throws IOException
     *             if an error occurs while reading a token from the input {@code TokenStream}
     */
    private boolean incrementPhrase() throws IOException {
        boolean end_of_phrase = false;
        boolean between_quotemarks = false;

        while (!end_of_phrase) {
            if (input.incrementToken()) {
                // Reading term attributes from input stream and adding token into buffer
                Token current_token = loadNextToken();
                currentTokens.add(current_token);

                // Act upon encountering delimiting punctuation
                if (current_token.isDelim(false)) {
                    // Check if current punctuation is a quotation mark
                    if (current_token.isQuotation(between_quotemarks)) {
                        // Quotation marks do not end the phrase. We just use them to switch the
                        // state of open quotation marks from open to closed or vice versa.
                        between_quotemarks = between_quotemarks ? false : true;
                    } else {
                        // Delimiters do not end the phrase if we encounter them between open
                        // punctuation marks, but they do end the phrase in all other cases
                        end_of_phrase = between_quotemarks ? false : true;
                    }
                }
            } else {
                end_of_phrase = true;
                if (currentTokens.isEmpty())
                    return false;
            }
        }

        return true;
    }

    /*
     * Reads the next token from the input {@code TokenStream}
     */
    private Token loadNextToken() {
        Token next_token = new Token(input_term.term(), input_type.type(), Globals.NO_FLAGS,
                new ReviewTermPayload(input_payload.getPayload()));
        return next_token;
    }
}