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<div class="sub-title"><span class="package-label-in-type">Package</span>&nbsp;<a href="package-summary.html">opennlp.tools.chunker</a></div>
<h1 title="Class ChunkerME" class="title">Class ChunkerME</h1>
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<dt>All Implemented Interfaces:</dt>
<dd><code><a href="Chunker.html" title="interface in opennlp.tools.chunker">Chunker</a></code></dd>
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<div class="type-signature"><span class="modifiers">public class </span><span class="element-name type-name-label">ChunkerME</span>
<span class="extends-implements">extends <a href="https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/Object.html" title="class or interface in java.lang" class="external-link">Object</a>
implements <a href="Chunker.html" title="interface in opennlp.tools.chunker">Chunker</a></span></div>
<div class="block">The class represents a maximum-entropy-based <a href="Chunker.html" title="interface in opennlp.tools.chunker"><code>Chunker</code></a>. This chunker can be used to
find flat structures based on sequence inputs such as noun phrases or named entities.</div>
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<div class="col-first even-row-color"><code>static final int</code></div>
<div class="col-second even-row-color"><code><a href="#DEFAULT_BEAM_SIZE" class="member-name-link">DEFAULT_BEAM_SIZE</a></code></div>
<div class="col-last even-row-color">&nbsp;</div>
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<div class="col-constructor-name even-row-color"><code><a href="#%3Cinit%3E(java.lang.String)" class="member-name-link">ChunkerME</a><wbr>(<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/String.html" title="class or interface in java.lang" class="external-link">String</a>&nbsp;language)</code></div>
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<div class="block">Initializes a <a href="Chunker.html" title="interface in opennlp.tools.chunker"><code>Chunker</code></a> by downloading a default model.</div>
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<div class="col-constructor-name odd-row-color"><code><a href="#%3Cinit%3E(opennlp.tools.chunker.ChunkerModel)" class="member-name-link">ChunkerME</a><wbr>(<a href="ChunkerModel.html" title="class in opennlp.tools.chunker">ChunkerModel</a>&nbsp;model)</code></div>
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<div class="block">Initializes a <a href="Chunker.html" title="interface in opennlp.tools.chunker"><code>Chunker</code></a> with the specified <a href="ChunkerModel.html" title="class in opennlp.tools.chunker"><code>ChunkerModel</code></a>.</div>
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<div class="col-first even-row-color method-summary-table method-summary-table-tab2 method-summary-table-tab4"><code><a href="https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/String.html" title="class or interface in java.lang" class="external-link">String</a>[]</code></div>
<div class="col-second even-row-color method-summary-table method-summary-table-tab2 method-summary-table-tab4"><code><a href="#chunk(java.lang.String%5B%5D,java.lang.String%5B%5D)" class="member-name-link">chunk</a><wbr>(<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/String.html" title="class or interface in java.lang" class="external-link">String</a>[]&nbsp;toks,
<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/String.html" title="class or interface in java.lang" class="external-link">String</a>[]&nbsp;tags)</code></div>
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<div class="block">Generates chunk tags for the given sequence returning the result in an array.</div>
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<div class="col-first odd-row-color method-summary-table method-summary-table-tab2 method-summary-table-tab4"><code><a href="../util/Span.html" title="class in opennlp.tools.util">Span</a>[]</code></div>
<div class="col-second odd-row-color method-summary-table method-summary-table-tab2 method-summary-table-tab4"><code><a href="#chunkAsSpans(java.lang.String%5B%5D,java.lang.String%5B%5D)" class="member-name-link">chunkAsSpans</a><wbr>(<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/String.html" title="class or interface in java.lang" class="external-link">String</a>[]&nbsp;toks,
<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/String.html" title="class or interface in java.lang" class="external-link">String</a>[]&nbsp;tags)</code></div>
<div class="col-last odd-row-color method-summary-table method-summary-table-tab2 method-summary-table-tab4">
<div class="block">Generates tagged chunk <a href="../util/Span.html" title="class in opennlp.tools.util"><code>spans</code></a> for the given sequence returning
the result in a <a href="../util/Span.html" title="class in opennlp.tools.util"><code>span</code></a> array.</div>
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<div class="col-first even-row-color method-summary-table method-summary-table-tab2 method-summary-table-tab4"><code>double[]</code></div>
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<div class="block">Returns an array with the probabilities of the last decoded sequence.</div>
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<div class="block">Populates the specified array with the probabilities of the last decoded sequence.</div>
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<div class="col-first even-row-color method-summary-table method-summary-table-tab2 method-summary-table-tab4"><code><a href="../util/Sequence.html" title="class in opennlp.tools.util">Sequence</a>[]</code></div>
<div class="col-second even-row-color method-summary-table method-summary-table-tab2 method-summary-table-tab4"><code><a href="#topKSequences(java.lang.String%5B%5D,java.lang.String%5B%5D)" class="member-name-link">topKSequences</a><wbr>(<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/String.html" title="class or interface in java.lang" class="external-link">String</a>[]&nbsp;sentence,
<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/String.html" title="class or interface in java.lang" class="external-link">String</a>[]&nbsp;tags)</code></div>
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<div class="block">Computes the top k chunk <a href="../util/Sequence.html" title="class in opennlp.tools.util"><code>sequences</code></a> for the specified sentence with
the specified pos-tags.</div>
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<div class="col-first odd-row-color method-summary-table method-summary-table-tab2 method-summary-table-tab4"><code><a href="../util/Sequence.html" title="class in opennlp.tools.util">Sequence</a>[]</code></div>
<div class="col-second odd-row-color method-summary-table method-summary-table-tab2 method-summary-table-tab4"><code><a href="#topKSequences(java.lang.String%5B%5D,java.lang.String%5B%5D,double)" class="member-name-link">topKSequences</a><wbr>(<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/String.html" title="class or interface in java.lang" class="external-link">String</a>[]&nbsp;sentence,
<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/String.html" title="class or interface in java.lang" class="external-link">String</a>[]&nbsp;tags,
double&nbsp;minSequenceScore)</code></div>
<div class="col-last odd-row-color method-summary-table method-summary-table-tab2 method-summary-table-tab4">
<div class="block">Computes the top k chunk <a href="../util/Sequence.html" title="class in opennlp.tools.util"><code>sequences</code></a> for the specified sentence with
the specified pos-tags.</div>
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<div class="col-first even-row-color method-summary-table method-summary-table-tab1 method-summary-table-tab4"><code>static <a href="ChunkerModel.html" title="class in opennlp.tools.chunker">ChunkerModel</a></code></div>
<div class="col-second even-row-color method-summary-table method-summary-table-tab1 method-summary-table-tab4"><code><a href="#train(java.lang.String,opennlp.tools.util.ObjectStream,opennlp.tools.util.TrainingParameters,opennlp.tools.chunker.ChunkerFactory)" class="member-name-link">train</a><wbr>(<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/String.html" title="class or interface in java.lang" class="external-link">String</a>&nbsp;lang,
<a href="../util/ObjectStream.html" title="interface in opennlp.tools.util">ObjectStream</a>&lt;<a href="ChunkSample.html" title="class in opennlp.tools.chunker">ChunkSample</a>&gt;&nbsp;in,
<a href="../util/TrainingParameters.html" title="class in opennlp.tools.util">TrainingParameters</a>&nbsp;mlParams,
<a href="ChunkerFactory.html" title="class in opennlp.tools.chunker">ChunkerFactory</a>&nbsp;factory)</code></div>
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<div class="block">Starts a training of a <a href="ChunkerModel.html" title="class in opennlp.tools.chunker"><code>ChunkerModel</code></a> with the given parameters.</div>
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<div class="member-signature"><span class="modifiers">public static final</span>&nbsp;<span class="return-type">int</span>&nbsp;<span class="element-name">DEFAULT_BEAM_SIZE</span></div>
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<li><a href="../../../constant-values.html#opennlp.tools.chunker.ChunkerME.DEFAULT_BEAM_SIZE">Constant Field Values</a></li>
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<h3>ChunkerME</h3>
<div class="member-signature"><span class="modifiers">public</span>&nbsp;<span class="element-name">ChunkerME</span><wbr><span class="parameters">(<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/String.html" title="class or interface in java.lang" class="external-link">String</a>&nbsp;language)</span>
throws <span class="exceptions"><a href="https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base/java/io/IOException.html" title="class or interface in java.io" class="external-link">IOException</a></span></div>
<div class="block">Initializes a <a href="Chunker.html" title="interface in opennlp.tools.chunker"><code>Chunker</code></a> by downloading a default model.</div>
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<dt>Parameters:</dt>
<dd><code>language</code> - The language of the model.</dd>
<dt>Throws:</dt>
<dd><code><a href="https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base/java/io/IOException.html" title="class or interface in java.io" class="external-link">IOException</a></code> - Thrown if the model cannot be downloaded or saved.</dd>
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<h3>ChunkerME</h3>
<div class="member-signature"><span class="modifiers">public</span>&nbsp;<span class="element-name">ChunkerME</span><wbr><span class="parameters">(<a href="ChunkerModel.html" title="class in opennlp.tools.chunker">ChunkerModel</a>&nbsp;model)</span></div>
<div class="block">Initializes a <a href="Chunker.html" title="interface in opennlp.tools.chunker"><code>Chunker</code></a> with the specified <a href="ChunkerModel.html" title="class in opennlp.tools.chunker"><code>ChunkerModel</code></a>.
The <a href="#DEFAULT_BEAM_SIZE"><code>DEFAULT_BEAM_SIZE</code></a> is used.</div>
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<dt>Parameters:</dt>
<dd><code>model</code> - A valid <a href="ChunkerModel.html" title="class in opennlp.tools.chunker"><code>model</code></a> instance.</dd>
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<h3>chunk</h3>
<div class="member-signature"><span class="modifiers">public</span>&nbsp;<span class="return-type"><a href="https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/String.html" title="class or interface in java.lang" class="external-link">String</a>[]</span>&nbsp;<span class="element-name">chunk</span><wbr><span class="parameters">(<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/String.html" title="class or interface in java.lang" class="external-link">String</a>[]&nbsp;toks,
<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/String.html" title="class or interface in java.lang" class="external-link">String</a>[]&nbsp;tags)</span></div>
<div class="block"><span class="descfrm-type-label">Description copied from interface:&nbsp;<code><a href="Chunker.html#chunk(java.lang.String%5B%5D,java.lang.String%5B%5D)">Chunker</a></code></span></div>
<div class="block">Generates chunk tags for the given sequence returning the result in an array.</div>
<dl class="notes">
<dt>Specified by:</dt>
<dd><code><a href="Chunker.html#chunk(java.lang.String%5B%5D,java.lang.String%5B%5D)">chunk</a></code>&nbsp;in interface&nbsp;<code><a href="Chunker.html" title="interface in opennlp.tools.chunker">Chunker</a></code></dd>
<dt>Parameters:</dt>
<dd><code>toks</code> - an array of the tokens or words of the sequence.</dd>
<dd><code>tags</code> - an array of the pos tags of the sequence.</dd>
<dt>Returns:</dt>
<dd>an array of chunk tags for each token in the sequence.</dd>
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<h3>chunkAsSpans</h3>
<div class="member-signature"><span class="modifiers">public</span>&nbsp;<span class="return-type"><a href="../util/Span.html" title="class in opennlp.tools.util">Span</a>[]</span>&nbsp;<span class="element-name">chunkAsSpans</span><wbr><span class="parameters">(<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/String.html" title="class or interface in java.lang" class="external-link">String</a>[]&nbsp;toks,
<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/String.html" title="class or interface in java.lang" class="external-link">String</a>[]&nbsp;tags)</span></div>
<div class="block"><span class="descfrm-type-label">Description copied from interface:&nbsp;<code><a href="Chunker.html#chunkAsSpans(java.lang.String%5B%5D,java.lang.String%5B%5D)">Chunker</a></code></span></div>
<div class="block">Generates tagged chunk <a href="../util/Span.html" title="class in opennlp.tools.util"><code>spans</code></a> for the given sequence returning
the result in a <a href="../util/Span.html" title="class in opennlp.tools.util"><code>span</code></a> array.</div>
<dl class="notes">
<dt>Specified by:</dt>
<dd><code><a href="Chunker.html#chunkAsSpans(java.lang.String%5B%5D,java.lang.String%5B%5D)">chunkAsSpans</a></code>&nbsp;in interface&nbsp;<code><a href="Chunker.html" title="interface in opennlp.tools.chunker">Chunker</a></code></dd>
<dt>Parameters:</dt>
<dd><code>toks</code> - an array of the tokens or words of the sequence.</dd>
<dd><code>tags</code> - an array of the pos tags of the sequence.</dd>
<dt>Returns:</dt>
<dd>an array of <a href="../util/Span.html" title="class in opennlp.tools.util"><code>spans</code></a> with chunk tags for each chunk in the sequence.</dd>
</dl>
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<section class="detail" id="topKSequences(java.lang.String[],java.lang.String[])">
<h3>topKSequences</h3>
<div class="member-signature"><span class="modifiers">public</span>&nbsp;<span class="return-type"><a href="../util/Sequence.html" title="class in opennlp.tools.util">Sequence</a>[]</span>&nbsp;<span class="element-name">topKSequences</span><wbr><span class="parameters">(<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/String.html" title="class or interface in java.lang" class="external-link">String</a>[]&nbsp;sentence,
<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/String.html" title="class or interface in java.lang" class="external-link">String</a>[]&nbsp;tags)</span></div>
<div class="block"><span class="descfrm-type-label">Description copied from interface:&nbsp;<code><a href="Chunker.html#topKSequences(java.lang.String%5B%5D,java.lang.String%5B%5D)">Chunker</a></code></span></div>
<div class="block">Computes the top k chunk <a href="../util/Sequence.html" title="class in opennlp.tools.util"><code>sequences</code></a> for the specified sentence with
the specified pos-tags.</div>
<dl class="notes">
<dt>Specified by:</dt>
<dd><code><a href="Chunker.html#topKSequences(java.lang.String%5B%5D,java.lang.String%5B%5D)">topKSequences</a></code>&nbsp;in interface&nbsp;<code><a href="Chunker.html" title="interface in opennlp.tools.chunker">Chunker</a></code></dd>
<dt>Parameters:</dt>
<dd><code>sentence</code> - The tokens of the sentence.</dd>
<dd><code>tags</code> - The pos-tags for the specified sentence.</dd>
<dt>Returns:</dt>
<dd>the top k chunk <a href="../util/Sequence.html" title="class in opennlp.tools.util"><code>sequences</code></a> for the specified sentence.</dd>
</dl>
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<section class="detail" id="topKSequences(java.lang.String[],java.lang.String[],double)">
<h3>topKSequences</h3>
<div class="member-signature"><span class="modifiers">public</span>&nbsp;<span class="return-type"><a href="../util/Sequence.html" title="class in opennlp.tools.util">Sequence</a>[]</span>&nbsp;<span class="element-name">topKSequences</span><wbr><span class="parameters">(<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/String.html" title="class or interface in java.lang" class="external-link">String</a>[]&nbsp;sentence,
<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/String.html" title="class or interface in java.lang" class="external-link">String</a>[]&nbsp;tags,
double&nbsp;minSequenceScore)</span></div>
<div class="block"><span class="descfrm-type-label">Description copied from interface:&nbsp;<code><a href="Chunker.html#topKSequences(java.lang.String%5B%5D,java.lang.String%5B%5D,double)">Chunker</a></code></span></div>
<div class="block">Computes the top k chunk <a href="../util/Sequence.html" title="class in opennlp.tools.util"><code>sequences</code></a> for the specified sentence with
the specified pos-tags.</div>
<dl class="notes">
<dt>Specified by:</dt>
<dd><code><a href="Chunker.html#topKSequences(java.lang.String%5B%5D,java.lang.String%5B%5D,double)">topKSequences</a></code>&nbsp;in interface&nbsp;<code><a href="Chunker.html" title="interface in opennlp.tools.chunker">Chunker</a></code></dd>
<dt>Parameters:</dt>
<dd><code>sentence</code> - The tokens of the sentence.</dd>
<dd><code>tags</code> - The pos-tags for the specified sentence.</dd>
<dd><code>minSequenceScore</code> - A lower bound on the score of a returned sequence.</dd>
<dt>Returns:</dt>
<dd>the top k chunk <a href="../util/Sequence.html" title="class in opennlp.tools.util"><code>sequences</code></a> for the specified sentence.</dd>
</dl>
</section>
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<section class="detail" id="probs(double[])">
<h3>probs</h3>
<div class="member-signature"><span class="modifiers">public</span>&nbsp;<span class="return-type">void</span>&nbsp;<span class="element-name">probs</span><wbr><span class="parameters">(double[]&nbsp;probs)</span></div>
<div class="block">Populates the specified array with the probabilities of the last decoded sequence. The
sequence was determined based on the previous call to <code>chunk</code>. The
specified array should be at least as large as the number of tokens in the previous
call to <code>chunk</code>.</div>
<dl class="notes">
<dt>Parameters:</dt>
<dd><code>probs</code> - An array used to hold the probabilities of the last decoded sequence.</dd>
</dl>
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<section class="detail" id="probs()">
<h3>probs</h3>
<div class="member-signature"><span class="modifiers">public</span>&nbsp;<span class="return-type">double[]</span>&nbsp;<span class="element-name">probs</span>()</div>
<div class="block">Returns an array with the probabilities of the last decoded sequence. The
sequence was determined based on the previous call to <a href="#chunk(java.lang.String%5B%5D,java.lang.String%5B%5D)"><code>chunk(String[], String[])</code></a>.</div>
<dl class="notes">
<dt>Returns:</dt>
<dd>An array with the same number of probabilities as tokens when
<a href="#chunk(java.lang.String%5B%5D,java.lang.String%5B%5D)"><code>chunk(String[], String[])</code></a> was last called.</dd>
</dl>
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<section class="detail" id="train(java.lang.String,opennlp.tools.util.ObjectStream,opennlp.tools.util.TrainingParameters,opennlp.tools.chunker.ChunkerFactory)">
<h3>train</h3>
<div class="member-signature"><span class="modifiers">public static</span>&nbsp;<span class="return-type"><a href="ChunkerModel.html" title="class in opennlp.tools.chunker">ChunkerModel</a></span>&nbsp;<span class="element-name">train</span><wbr><span class="parameters">(<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/String.html" title="class or interface in java.lang" class="external-link">String</a>&nbsp;lang,
<a href="../util/ObjectStream.html" title="interface in opennlp.tools.util">ObjectStream</a>&lt;<a href="ChunkSample.html" title="class in opennlp.tools.chunker">ChunkSample</a>&gt;&nbsp;in,
<a href="../util/TrainingParameters.html" title="class in opennlp.tools.util">TrainingParameters</a>&nbsp;mlParams,
<a href="ChunkerFactory.html" title="class in opennlp.tools.chunker">ChunkerFactory</a>&nbsp;factory)</span>
throws <span class="exceptions"><a href="https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base/java/io/IOException.html" title="class or interface in java.io" class="external-link">IOException</a></span></div>
<div class="block">Starts a training of a <a href="ChunkerModel.html" title="class in opennlp.tools.chunker"><code>ChunkerModel</code></a> with the given parameters.</div>
<dl class="notes">
<dt>Parameters:</dt>
<dd><code>lang</code> - The ISO conform language code.</dd>
<dd><code>in</code> - The <a href="../util/ObjectStream.html" title="interface in opennlp.tools.util"><code>ObjectStream</code></a> of <a href="ChunkSample.html" title="class in opennlp.tools.chunker"><code>ChunkSample</code></a> used as input for training.</dd>
<dd><code>mlParams</code> - The <a href="../util/TrainingParameters.html" title="class in opennlp.tools.util"><code>TrainingParameters</code></a> for the context of the training.</dd>
<dd><code>factory</code> - The <a href="ChunkerFactory.html" title="class in opennlp.tools.chunker"><code>ChunkerFactory</code></a> for creating related objects defined via <code>mlParams</code>.</dd>
<dt>Returns:</dt>
<dd>A valid, trained <a href="ChunkerModel.html" title="class in opennlp.tools.chunker"><code>ChunkerModel</code></a> instance.</dd>
<dt>Throws:</dt>
<dd><code><a href="https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base/java/io/IOException.html" title="class or interface in java.io" class="external-link">IOException</a></code> - Thrown if IO errors occurred.</dd>
<dd><code><a href="https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/IllegalArgumentException.html" title="class or interface in java.lang" class="external-link">IllegalArgumentException</a></code> - Thrown if the specified <a href="../ml/TrainerFactory.TrainerType.html" title="enum class in opennlp.tools.ml"><code>TrainerFactory.TrainerType</code></a> is not supported.</dd>
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