Package org.languagetool.synthesis

Class ManualSynthesizer

java.lang.Object

org.languagetool.synthesis.ManualSynthesizer

public final class ManualSynthesizer
extends Object

A synthesizer that reads the inflected form and POS information from a plain (UTF-8) text file. This makes it possible for the user to edit the text file to let the system know about new words or missing readings in the synthesizer *.dict file.

File Format: fullform baseform postags (tab separated)

Author:

Ionuț Păduraru

See Also:

• ManualTagger
• BaseSynthesizer

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
ManualSynthesizer(InputStream inputStream)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Set<String>	getPossibleTags()	Retrieve all the possible POS values.
List<String>	lookup(String lemma, String posTag)	Look up a word's inflected form as specified by the lemma and POS tag.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Details

ManualSynthesizer

public ManualSynthesizer(InputStream inputStream)
                  throws IOException

Throws:

IOException

Method Details

getPossibleTags

public Set<String> getPossibleTags()

Retrieve all the possible POS values.

lookup

public List<String> lookup(String lemma,
 String posTag)

Look up a word's inflected form as specified by the lemma and POS tag.

Parameters:

lemma - the lemma to inflect.

posTag - the required POS tag.

Returns:

a list with all the inflected forms of the specified lemma having the specified POS tag. If no inflected form is found, the function returns null.