String[] sentence = {"U", ".", "S", ".", "President", "Barack", "Obama", "is",
"considering", "sending", "additional", "American", "forces",
"to", "Afghanistan", "."};
Span[] names = {new Span(0, 4, "Location"), new Span(5, 7, "Person"),
new Span(14, 15, "Location")};
NameSample nameSample;
if(useTypes) {
nameSample = new NameSample(sentence, names, false);
}
else {
Span[] namesWithoutType = new Span[names.length];
for (int i = 0; i < names.length; i++) {
namesWithoutType[i] = new Span(names[i].getStart(),
names[i].getEnd());
}
nameSample = new NameSample(sentence, namesWithoutType, false);
}