// get signs using an additional arg for a target rel
private Collection<Sign> getSignsFromPredAndTargetRel(String pred, String targetRel) {
Collection<Word> words = (Collection<Word>) _predToWords.get(pred);
String specialTokenConst = null;
// for robustness, when using supertagger, add words for pred sans sense index
int dotIndex = -1;
if (_supertagger != null
&& !Character.isDigit(pred.charAt(0))
&& // skip numbers
(dotIndex = pred.lastIndexOf('.')) > 0
&& pred.length() > dotIndex + 1
&& pred.charAt(dotIndex + 1) != '_') // skip titles, eg Mr._Smith
{
String barePred = pred.substring(0, dotIndex);
Collection<Word> barePredWords = (Collection<Word>) _predToWords.get(barePred);
if (words == null) words = barePredWords;
else if (barePredWords != null) {
Set<Word> unionWords = new HashSet<Word>(words);
unionWords.addAll(barePredWords);
words = unionWords;
}
}
if (words == null) {
specialTokenConst = tokenizer.getSpecialTokenConstant(tokenizer.isSpecialToken(pred));
if (specialTokenConst == null) return null;
// lookup words with pred = special token const
Collection<Word> specialTokenWords = (Collection<Word>) _predToWords.get(specialTokenConst);
// replace special token const with pred
if (specialTokenWords == null) return null;
words = new ArrayList<Word>(specialTokenWords.size());
for (Iterator<Word> it = specialTokenWords.iterator(); it.hasNext(); ) {
Word stw = it.next();
Word w = Word.createSurfaceWord(stw, pred);
words.add(w);
}
}
List<Sign> retval = new ArrayList<Sign>();
for (Iterator<Word> it = words.iterator(); it.hasNext(); ) {
Word w = it.next();
try {
SignHash signs = getSignsFromWord(w, specialTokenConst, pred, targetRel);
retval.addAll(signs.asSignSet());
}
// shouldn't happen
catch (LexException exc) {
System.err.println("Unexpected lex exception for word " + w + ": " + exc);
}
}
return retval;
}