Only released in EOL distros:
Package Summary
stanford_parser_ros wraps the parse tree and dependency functionality of the Stanford Parser and Stanford Dependencies Parser (with parse tree and dependencies outputs) for ROS. It receives a string (a command sentence) and returns a Parse, which consists of a flattened parse tree and a list of dependencies (such as direct object, indirect object, etc.).
- Author: Brian Thomas
- License: BSD
- Source: hg https://kforge.ros.org/appmanandroid/roboframenet (branch: None)
WARNING: This documentation refers to an outdated version of rosjava and is probably incorrect. Use at your own risk.
Interpreting Output Messages
Parse tree
A python utility is provided to unsquash the parse trees and dependencies output by stanford_parser_ros. This will create a tree structure:
from stanford_parser_msgs import unsquash_tree [...] def callback(msg): # msg type: stanford_parser_msgs/Parse [...] parse_tree = unsquash_tree(msg) [...]
Each node in the tree -- an instance of the class Tree -- has the following elements:
node.tag # string node.score # double -- confidence rating of the Stanford Parser node.word # string node.word_index # integer -- node.word = msg.words[node.word_index] node.children # listof(Tree)
The part-of-speech tags used in the Stanford Parser come from Penn Treebank II and can be found here.
Dependencies
Dependencies (a list located under msg.dependencies) have the following 3 elements:
relation: Relation between the governor and dependent. A complete set of relations can be found in the Stanford Dependencies Manual.
governor_index: The index of the governor in msg.words. In other words, the governor is msg.words[dependency.governor_index].
dependent_index: The index of the dependent in msg.words. In other words, the dependent is msg.words[dependency.dependent_index].
For instance, the sentence "Give Bill the ball." has, among others, the dependency "dobj(give-2, ball-5)". For this dependency, relation is "dobj", governor_index is 2, and dependent_index is 5.
