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getting text from the class "Parse" opennlp

I have a parse tree, which is an object of the class Parse class in opennlp. I want to print the text from the parse tree. For example consider the sentence: Wikipedia is a collaboratively edited, multilingual, free Internet encyclopedia supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.. I have identified the noun phrases in the sentence: 

 (NP (NNP Wikipedia))
 (NP (NP (DT a) (RB collaboratively) (JJ edited,) (JJ multilingual,) (JJ free) (NNP    Internet) (NN encyclopedia)) (VP (VBN supported) (PP (IN by) (NP (DT the) (JJ non-profit) (NNP Wikimedia) (NNP Foundation.)))))
 (NP (DT a) (RB collaboratively) (JJ edited,) (JJ multilingual,) (JJ free) (NNP Internet)  (NN encyclopedia))
 (NP (DT the) (JJ non-profit) (NNP Wikimedia) (NNP Foundation.))

I want to output the list ["Wikipedia", "collaboratively edited...", "non profit wikimedia foundation"]. The getText method in Parse returns the whole sentence, instead of just the string associated with the parse tree. Is there a way to do that directly in OpenNLP?

Solution

  • I found the solution, the function is: Parse.getCoveredText().