de.danielnaber.languagetool.tagging
Interface Tagger

All Known Implementing Classes:

BaseTagger, CzechTagger, DemoTagger, DutchTagger, EnglishTagger, FrenchTagger, GermanTagger, ItalianTagger, PolishTagger, RussianTagger, SpanishTagger, SwedishTagger, UkrainianMorfoTagger, UkrainianMyspellTagger, UkrainianTagger

public interface Tagger

The part-of-speech tagger interface, whose implementions are usually language-dependent.

Author:

Daniel Naber

Method Summary

Object	createNullToken(String token, int startPos) Create the AnalyzedToken used for whitespace and other non-words.
List<AnalyzedTokenReadings>	tag(List<String> sentenceTokens) Returns a list of AnalyzedTokens that assigns each term in the sentence some kind of part-of-speech information (not necessarily just one tag).

Method Detail

tag

List<AnalyzedTokenReadings> tag(List<String> sentenceTokens)
                                throws IOException

Returns a list of AnalyzedTokens that assigns each term in the sentence some kind of part-of-speech information (not necessarily just one tag).

Note that this method takes exactly one sentence. Its implementation may implement special cases for the first word of a sentence, which is usually written with an uppercase letter.

Parameters:

sentenceTokens - the text as returned by a WordTokenizer but whithout whitespace tokens.

Throws:

IOException

createNullToken

Object createNullToken(String token,
                       int startPos)

Create the AnalyzedToken used for whitespace and other non-words. Use null as the POS tag for this token.