Package 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"

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
private static final String	ADD_DETERMINER
private static final String	ADD_IND_DETERMINER
private final AvsAnRule	aVsAnRule
private static final List<String>	exceptions
static final EnglishSynthesizer	INSTANCE
private static final String	RESOURCE_FILENAME
private static final String	SOR_FILE_NAME
private static final String	TAGS_FILE_NAME

Fields inherited from class org.languagetool.synthesis.BaseSynthesizer

language, possibleTags, SPELLNUMBER_FEMININE_TAG, SPELLNUMBER_ROMAN_TAG, SPELLNUMBER_TAG

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Modifier	Constructor	Description
private	EnglishSynthesizer()
	EnglishSynthesizer(Language lang)	Deprecated. use INSTANCE

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
protected boolean	isException(String w)
private void	lookup(String lemma, String posTag, List<String> results, String determiner)
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 Details

RESOURCE_FILENAME

private static final String RESOURCE_FILENAME

See Also:

• Constant Field Values

TAGS_FILE_NAME

private static final String TAGS_FILE_NAME

See Also:

• Constant Field Values

SOR_FILE_NAME

private static final String SOR_FILE_NAME

See Also:

• Constant Field Values

exceptions

private static final List<String> exceptions

ADD_DETERMINER

private static final String ADD_DETERMINER

See Also:

• Constant Field Values

ADD_IND_DETERMINER

private static final String ADD_IND_DETERMINER

See Also:

• Constant Field Values

aVsAnRule

private final AvsAnRule aVsAnRule

INSTANCE

public static final EnglishSynthesizer INSTANCE

Constructor Details

EnglishSynthesizer

public EnglishSynthesizer(Language lang)

Deprecated.

use INSTANCE

EnglishSynthesizer

private EnglishSynthesizer()

Method Details

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

lookup

private void lookup(String lemma,
 String posTag,
 List<String> results,
 String determiner)

isException

protected boolean isException(String w)

Overrides:

isException in class BaseSynthesizer