How to extract the noun phrases using Open nlp's chunking parser

Question

I am newbie to Natural Language processing.I need to extract the noun phrases from the text.So far i have used open nlp\'s chunking parser for parsing my text to get the Tre

Answer 1

The Parse object is a tree; you can use getParent() and getChildren() and getType() to navigate the tree.

List nounPhrases;

public void getNounPhrases(Parse p) {
    if (p.getType().equals("NP")) {
         nounPhrases.add(p);
    }
    for (Parse child : p.getChildren()) {
         getNounPhrases(child);
    }
}