Example #1
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        /// <summary>Find the index of the head of an entity.</summary>
        /// <param name="ent">The entity mention</param>
        /// <param name="tree">The Tree for the entire sentence in which it occurs.</param>
        /// <param name="tokens">The Sentence in which it occurs</param>
        /// <param name="setHeadSpan">Whether to set the head span in the entity mention.</param>
        /// <returns>The index of the entity head</returns>
        public virtual int AssignSyntacticHead(EntityMention ent, Tree tree, IList <CoreLabel> tokens, bool setHeadSpan)
        {
            if (ent.GetSyntacticHeadTokenPosition() != -1)
            {
                return(ent.GetSyntacticHeadTokenPosition());
            }
            logger.Finest("Finding syntactic head for entity: " + ent + " in tree: " + tree.ToString());
            logger.Finest("Flat sentence is: " + tokens);
            Tree sh = null;

            try
            {
                sh = FindSyntacticHead(ent, tree, tokens);
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                logger.Severe("WARNING: failed to parse sentence. Will continue with the right-most head heuristic: " + SentenceToString(tokens));
                Sharpen.Runtime.PrintStackTrace(e);
            }
            int headPos = ent.GetExtentTokenEnd() - 1;

            if (sh != null)
            {
                CoreLabel label = (CoreLabel)sh.Label();
                headPos = label.Get(typeof(CoreAnnotations.BeginIndexAnnotation));
            }
            else
            {
                logger.Fine("WARNING: failed to find syntactic head for entity: " + ent + " in tree: " + tree);
                logger.Fine("Fallback strategy: will set head to last token in mention: " + tokens[headPos]);
            }
            ent.SetHeadTokenPosition(headPos);
            if (setHeadSpan)
            {
                // set the head span to match exactly the syntactic head
                // this is needed for some corpora where the head span is not given
                ent.SetHeadTokenSpan(new Span(headPos, headPos + 1));
            }
            return(headPos);
        }