## Uses of Class
opennlp.tools.util.Span

- Packages that use Span
  Package | Description
  --- | ---
  opennlp.tools.chunker | Package related to finding non-recursive syntactic annotation such as noun phrase chunks.
  opennlp.tools.cmdline.chunker |
  opennlp.tools.cmdline.namefind |
  opennlp.tools.entitylinker | Package related to linking entities to external data sources.
  opennlp.tools.formats.brat | Experimental package related to the corpus format used by the "brat rapid annotation tool" (brat).
  opennlp.tools.formats.irishsentencebank | Experimental package related to the Irish Sentence Bank format.
  opennlp.tools.formats.masc | Experimental package related to the `MASC` corpus format.
  opennlp.tools.formats.nkjp | Experimental package related to the National corpus of Polish `NKJP` format.
  opennlp.tools.namefind | Package related to finding proper names and numeric amounts.
  opennlp.tools.parser | Package containing common code for performing full syntactic parsing.
  opennlp.tools.sentdetect | Package related to identifying sentence boundaries.
  opennlp.tools.tokenize | Contains classes related to finding token or words in a string.
  opennlp.tools.util | Package containing utility data structures and algorithms used by multiple other packages.

- - ### Uses of Span in opennlp.tools.chunker

    Methods in opennlp.tools.chunker that return Span
    Modifier and Type | Method | Description
    --- | --- | ---
    `Span[]` | Chunker.`chunkAsSpans​(String[] toks, String[] tags)` | Generates tagged chunk spans for the given sequence returning the result in a span array.
    `Span[]` | ChunkerME.`chunkAsSpans​(String[] toks, String[] tags)` |
    `Span[]` | ChunkSample.`getPhrasesAsSpanList()` |
    `static Span[]` | ChunkSample.`phrasesAsSpanList​(String[] aSentence, String[] aTags, String[] aPreds)` | Create arrays of `spans` of phrases.

  - ### Uses of Span in opennlp.tools.cmdline.chunker

    Methods in opennlp.tools.cmdline.chunker that return Span
    Modifier and Type | Method | Description
    --- | --- | ---
    `protected Span[]` | ChunkerDetailedFMeasureListener.`asSpanArray​(ChunkSample sample)` |

  - ### Uses of Span in opennlp.tools.cmdline.namefind

    Methods in opennlp.tools.cmdline.namefind that return Span
    Modifier and Type | Method | Description
    --- | --- | ---
    `protected Span[]` | TokenNameFinderDetailedFMeasureListener.`asSpanArray​(NameSample sample)` |

  - ### Uses of Span in opennlp.tools.entitylinker

    Classes in opennlp.tools.entitylinker with type parameters of type Span
    Modifier and Type | Interface | Description
    --- | --- | ---
    `interface` | `EntityLinker<T extends Span>` | EntityLinkers establish connections with external data to enrich extracted entities.

    Subclasses of Span in opennlp.tools.entitylinker
    Modifier and Type | Class | Description
    --- | --- | ---
    `class` | `LinkedSpan<T extends BaseLink>` | A default, extended `Span` that holds additional information about a `Span`.

    Methods in opennlp.tools.entitylinker with parameters of type Span
    Modifier and Type | Method | Description
    --- | --- | ---
    `List<T>` | EntityLinker.`find​(String doctext, Span[] sentences, Span[][] tokensBySentence, Span[][] namesBySentence)` | Links an entire document of named entities to an external source.
    `List<T>` | EntityLinker.`find​(String doctext, Span[] sentences, Span[][] tokensBySentence, Span[][] namesBySentence, int sentenceIndex)` | Links the names that correspond to the tokens[] spans.

    Constructors in opennlp.tools.entitylinker with parameters of type Span
    Constructor | Description
    --- | ---
    `LinkedSpan​(ArrayList<T> linkedEntries, Span span, int offset)` | Initializes a new `LinkedSpan` via an existing `Span` which is shifted by the specified `offset`.

  - ### Uses of Span in opennlp.tools.formats.brat

    Methods in opennlp.tools.formats.brat that return Span
    Modifier and Type | Method | Description
    --- | --- | ---
    `Span[]` | SpanAnnotation.`getSpans()` |

  - ### Uses of Span in opennlp.tools.formats.irishsentencebank

    Methods in opennlp.tools.formats.irishsentencebank that return Span
    Modifier and Type | Method | Description
    --- | --- | ---
    `Span[]` | IrishSentenceBankDocument.IrishSentenceBankSentence.`getTokens()` |

    Constructors in opennlp.tools.formats.irishsentencebank with parameters of type Span
    Constructor | Description
    --- | ---
    `IrishSentenceBankSentence​(String src, String trans, String orig, Span[] toks, IrishSentenceBankDocument.IrishSentenceBankFlex[] flx)` |

  - ### Uses of Span in opennlp.tools.formats.masc

    Subclasses of Span in opennlp.tools.formats.masc
    Modifier and Type | Class | Description
    --- | --- | ---
    `class` | `MascSentence` |
    `class` | `MascToken` | A specialized `Span` to express tokens in `documents`.
    `class` | `MascWord` |

    Methods in opennlp.tools.formats.masc that return types with arguments of type Span
    Modifier and Type | Method | Description
    --- | --- | ---
    `List<Span>` | MascSentence.`getNamedEntities()` |
    `List<Span>` | MascSentence.`getTokensSpans()` | Retrieves the boundaries of individual tokens.

  - ### Uses of Span in opennlp.tools.formats.nkjp

    Methods in opennlp.tools.formats.nkjp that return Span
    Modifier and Type | Method | Description
    --- | --- | ---
    `Span` | NKJPSegmentationDocument.Pointer.`toSpan()` |

  - ### Uses of Span in opennlp.tools.namefind

    Methods in opennlp.tools.namefind that return Span
    Modifier and Type | Method | Description
    --- | --- | ---
    `Span[]` | BilouCodec.`decode​(List<String> c)` |
    `Span[]` | BioCodec.`decode​(List<String> c)` |
    `static Span[]` | NameFinderME.`dropOverlappingSpans​(Span[] spans)` | Removes `spans` with are intersecting or crossing in any way.
    `Span[]` | DictionaryNameFinder.`find​(String[] textTokenized)` |
    `Span[][]` | DocumentNameFinder.`find​(String[][] document)` | Finds tokens `spans` for the specified document of sentences and their tokens.
    `Span[]` | NameFinderME.`find​(String[] tokens)` |
    `Span[]` | NameFinderME.`find​(String[] tokens, String[][] additionalContext)` | Generates name tags for the given sequence, typically a sentence, returning `token spans` for any identified names.
    `Span[]` | RegexNameFinder.`find​(String text)` | Finds `spans` with character indices, rather than word.
    `Span[]` | RegexNameFinder.`find​(String[] tokens)` |
    `Span[]` | TokenNameFinder.`find​(String[] tokens)` | Generates name tags for the given sequence, typically a sentence, returning `token spans` for any identified names.
    `Span[]` | NameSample.`getNames()` |

    Methods in opennlp.tools.namefind with parameters of type Span
    Modifier and Type | Method | Description
    --- | --- | ---
    `static Span[]` | NameFinderME.`dropOverlappingSpans​(Span[] spans)` | Removes `spans` with are intersecting or crossing in any way.
    `String[]` | BilouCodec.`encode​(Span[] names, int length)` |
    `String[]` | BioCodec.`encode​(Span[] names, int length)` |
    `static String[]` | NameFinderEventStream.`generateOutcomes​(Span[] names, String type, int length)` | Deprecated. use the `BioCodec` implementation of the SequenceValidator instead!
    `double[]` | NameFinderME.`probs​(Span[] spans)` | Retrieves an array of probabilities for each of the specified spans which is the arithmetic mean of the probabilities for each of the outcomes which make up the span.

    Constructors in opennlp.tools.namefind with parameters of type Span
    Constructor | Description
    --- | ---
    `NameSample​(String[] sentence, Span[] names, boolean clearAdaptiveData)` | Initializes a `NameSample` instance with given parameters.
    `NameSample​(String[] sentence, Span[] names, String[][] additionalContext, boolean clearAdaptiveData)` | Initializes a `NameSample` instance with given parameters.
    `NameSample​(String id, String[] sentence, Span[] names, String[][] additionalContext, boolean clearAdaptiveData)` | Initializes a `NameSample` instance with given parameters.

  - ### Uses of Span in opennlp.tools.parser

    Methods in opennlp.tools.parser that return Span
    Modifier and Type | Method | Description
    --- | --- | ---
    `Span` | Constituent.`getSpan()` | Returns the span of the constituent.
    `Span` | Parse.`getSpan()` |

    Methods in opennlp.tools.parser with parameters of type Span
    Modifier and Type | Method | Description
    --- | --- | ---
    `static void` | Parse.`addNames​(String tag, Span[] names, Parse[] tokens)` | Utility method to insert named entities.

    Constructors in opennlp.tools.parser with parameters of type Span
    Constructor | Description
    --- | ---
    `Constituent​(String label, Span span)` |
    `Parse​(String text, Span span, String type, double p, int index)` | Initializes a `node` for this specified `text` and `span` of the specified `type` with probability `p` and the head `index`.
    `Parse​(String text, Span span, String type, double p, Parse h)` | Initializes a `node` for this specified `text` and `span` of the specified `type` with probability `p` and the head `index`.

  - ### Uses of Span in opennlp.tools.sentdetect

    Methods in opennlp.tools.sentdetect that return Span
    Modifier and Type | Method | Description
    --- | --- | ---
    `Span[]` | SentenceSample.`getSentences()` |
    `Span[]` | NewlineSentenceDetector.`sentPosDetect​(CharSequence s)` |
    `Span[]` | SentenceDetector.`sentPosDetect​(CharSequence s)` | Detects sentences in a character sequence.
    `Span[]` | SentenceDetectorME.`sentPosDetect​(CharSequence s)` | Detects the position of the first words of sentences in a `CharSequence`.

    Constructors in opennlp.tools.sentdetect with parameters of type Span
    Constructor | Description
    --- | ---
    `SentenceSample​(CharSequence document, Span... sentences)` | Initializes the current instance.

  - ### Uses of Span in opennlp.tools.tokenize

    Methods in opennlp.tools.tokenize that return Span
    Modifier and Type | Method | Description
    --- | --- | ---
    `Span[]` | TokenSample.`getTokenSpans()` |
    `Span[]` | SimpleTokenizer.`tokenizePos​(String s)` |
    `Span[]` | Tokenizer.`tokenizePos​(String s)` | Finds the boundaries of atomic parts in a string.
    `Span[]` | TokenizerME.`tokenizePos​(String d)` | Tokenizes the string.
    `Span[]` | WhitespaceTokenizer.`tokenizePos​(String d)` |
    `Span[]` | WordpieceTokenizer.`tokenizePos​(String text)` |

    Constructors in opennlp.tools.tokenize with parameters of type Span
    Constructor | Description
    --- | ---
    `TokenSample​(String text, Span[] tokenSpans)` | Initializes a `instance`.

  - ### Uses of Span in opennlp.tools.util

    Methods in opennlp.tools.util that return Span
    Modifier and Type | Method | Description
    --- | --- | ---
    `Span[]` | SequenceCodec.`decode​(List<T> c)` | Decodes a sequence of `objects` into `Span` objects.
    `Span` | Span.`trim​(CharSequence text)` |

    Methods in opennlp.tools.util with parameters of type Span
    Modifier and Type | Method | Description
    --- | --- | ---
    `int` | Span.`compareTo​(Span s)` | Compares the specified `Span` to the current span.
    `boolean` | Span.`contains​(Span s)` | Identical `spans` are considered to contain each other.
    `boolean` | Span.`crosses​(Span s)` | Checks if the specified `Span` crosses this span.
    `T[]` | SequenceCodec.`encode​(Span[] names, int length)` | Encodes `Span` objects into a sequence of `objects`.
    `boolean` | Span.`intersects​(Span s)` | Checks if the specified `Span` intersects with this span.
    `static String[]` | Span.`spansToStrings​(Span[] spans, CharSequence s)` | Converts an array of `spans` to an array of `String`.
    `static String[]` | Span.`spansToStrings​(Span[] spans, String[] tokens)` |
    `boolean` | Span.`startsWith​(Span s)` |

    Constructors in opennlp.tools.util with parameters of type Span
    Constructor | Description
    --- | ---
    `Span​(Span span, double prob)` | Creates a new immutable `Span` based on an existing `Span`, where the existing `Span` did not include the probability.
    `Span​(Span span, int offset)` | Initializes a new `Span` with an existing `Span` which is shifted by an offset.