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Class EnglishSynthesizer

Object
  EnglishSynthesizer

All Implemented Interfaces:

Synthesizer

public class EnglishSynthesizer
extends Object
implements Synthesizer

English word form synthesizer.
Based on part-of-speech lists in Public Domain. See readme.txt for details, the POS tagset is described in tagset.txt. There are to special additions:

1. +DT - tag that adds "a" or "an" (according to the way the word is pronounced) and "the"
2. +INDT - a tag that adds only "a" or "an"

Author:

Marcin Miłkowski

Constructor Summary

EnglishSynthesizer()

Method Summary

String	getPosTagCorrection(String posTag) Gets a corrected version of the POS tag used for synthesis.
String[]	synthesize(AnalyzedToken token, String posTag) Get a form of a given AnalyzedToken, where the form is defined by a part-of-speech tag.
String[]	synthesize(AnalyzedToken token, String posTag, boolean posTagRegExp) Generates a form of the word with a given POS tag for a given lemma.

Methods inherited from class Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

EnglishSynthesizer

public EnglishSynthesizer()

Method Detail

synthesize

public String[] synthesize(AnalyzedToken token,
                           String posTag)
                    throws IOException

Get a form of a given AnalyzedToken, where the form is defined by a part-of-speech tag.

Specified by:

synthesize in interface Synthesizer

Parameters:

token - AnalyzedToken to be inflected.

posTag - A desired part-of-speech tag.

Returns:

String value - inflected word.

Throws:

IOException

synthesize

public String[] synthesize(AnalyzedToken token,
                           String posTag,
                           boolean posTagRegExp)
                    throws IOException

Description copied from interface: Synthesizer

Generates a form of the word with a given POS tag for a given lemma. POS tag can be specified using regular expressions.

Specified by:

synthesize in interface Synthesizer

Parameters:

token - the token to be used for synthesis

posTag - POS tag of the form to be generated.

posTagRegExp - Specifies whether the posTag string is a regular expression.

Throws:

IOException

getPosTagCorrection

public String getPosTagCorrection(String posTag)

Description copied from interface: Synthesizer

Gets a corrected version of the POS tag used for synthesis. Useful when the tagset defines special disjunction that need to be converted into regexp disjunctions.

Specified by:

getPosTagCorrection in interface Synthesizer

Parameters:

posTag - Original POS tag. to correct.

Returns:

@String Converted POS tag.