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Jörn Kottmann closed OPENNLP-238.
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Resolution: Not A Problem
Fix Version/s: (was: tools-1.5.2-incubating)
It turned out that the described problem is not caused by beam search, but
instead is a problem with the provided tag dictionary.
> BestSequence method in BeamSearch can cause NullPointerException if it can
> not find a valid sequence
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> Key: OPENNLP-238
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENNLP-238
> Project: OpenNLP
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: POS Tagger
> Affects Versions: tools-1.5.2-incubating
> Reporter: William Colen
> Assignee: William Colen
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> I am using the standard sequence validator of POS Tagger with a
> TagDictionary. Sometimes there are no outcome that matches with the tags in
> the dictionary. That is causing a NullPointerException in bestSequence method.
> I think we should add an extra validation: if the heap 'next' still empty
> after advancing all valid sequences (line 159) we should let it advance
> invalid sequences. It would make the POS Tagger more robust.
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