org.languagetool.synthesis.en

Class EnglishSynthesizer

java.lang.Object

org.languagetool.synthesis.BaseSynthesizer

org.languagetool.synthesis.en.EnglishSynthesizer

All Implemented Interfaces:

Synthesizer

public class EnglishSynthesizer
extends BaseSynthesizer

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

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static EnglishSynthesizer	INSTANCE

Fields inherited from class org.languagetool.synthesis.BaseSynthesizer

possibleTags, SPELLNUMBER_FEMININE_TAG, SPELLNUMBER_ROMAN_TAG, SPELLNUMBER_TAG

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
EnglishSynthesizer(Language lang) Deprecated. use INSTANCE

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
protected boolean	isException(String w)
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) Special English regexp based synthesizer that allows adding articles when the regexp-based tag ends with a special signature \\+INDT or \\+DT.

Methods inherited from class org.languagetool.synthesis.BaseSynthesizer

createStemmer, getDictionary, getPosTagCorrection, getRomanNumber, getSpelledNumber, getStemmer, getTargetPosTag, initPossibleTags, lookup, removeExceptions, synthesizeForPosTags

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

INSTANCE

public static final EnglishSynthesizer INSTANCE

Constructor Detail

EnglishSynthesizer

public EnglishSynthesizer(Language lang)

Deprecated. use INSTANCE

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

Overrides:

synthesize in class BaseSynthesizer

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

Special English regexp based synthesizer that allows adding articles when the regexp-based tag ends with a special signature \\+INDT or \\+DT.

Specified by:

synthesize in interface Synthesizer

Overrides:

synthesize in class BaseSynthesizer

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

Since:

2.5

isException

protected boolean isException(String w)

Overrides:

isException in class BaseSynthesizer