com.aliasi.tokenizer
Class IndoEuropeanTokenCategorizer

java.lang.Object
  com.aliasi.tokenizer.IndoEuropeanTokenCategorizer

All Implemented Interfaces:

TokenCategorizer, Compilable

public final class IndoEuropeanTokenCategorizer
extends Object
implements Compilable, TokenCategorizer

A IndoEuropeanTokenCategorizer is a generic token categorizer for Indo-European languages that is based on character "shape".

The token categories returned by categorize(String) are as follows. To find the category for a given token, the first category that matches in the following list is chosen.

Category	Description
NULL-TOK	Zero-length string
1-DIG	A single digit.
2-DIG	A two-digit string.
3-DIG	A three digit string.
4-DIG	A four digit string.
5+-DIG	String of all digits five or more digits long.
DIG-LET	Contains digits and letters.
DIG--	Contains digits and hyphens
DIG-/	Contains digits and slashes.
DIG-,	Contains digits and commas.
DIG-.	Contains digits and periods.
1-LET-UP	A single uppercase letter.
1-LET-LOW	One lowercase letter
LET-UP	Uppercase letters only.
LET-LOW	Lowercase letters only.
LET-CAP	Uppercase letter followed by one or more lowercase letters.
LET-MIX	Letters only, containing both uppercase and lettercase.
PUNC-	A sequence of punctuation characters.
OTHER	Anything else.

Since:

LingPipe1.0

Version:

2.3.0

Author:

Bob Carpenter

Field Summary

static IndoEuropeanTokenCategorizer

CATEGORIZER This is a constant Indo-European token categorizer.

Constructor Summary

IndoEuropeanTokenCategorizer()
Construct an Indo-European token categorizer.

Method Summary

String[]	categories() Returns an array of strings representing all the categories produced by this categorizer.
String	categorize(String token) Returns the type of a token, based on its structure or other information.
void	compileTo(ObjectOutput objOut) Compiles this token categorizer to the specified object output.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

CATEGORIZER

public static final IndoEuropeanTokenCategorizer CATEGORIZER

This is a constant Indo-European token categorizer. Because the categorizer is thread safe, this can be used in lieu of creating a new instance with the zero-argument constructor.

Constructor Detail

IndoEuropeanTokenCategorizer

public IndoEuropeanTokenCategorizer()

Construct an Indo-European token categorizer. Because the token categorizer is thread safe and every instance of it is the same, the constant CATEGORIZER may be used in place of any instance constructed through this constructor.

Method Detail

categorize

public String categorize(String token)

Returns the type of a token, based on its structure or other information. The returned type is a string that is used as a proxy for the token. Estimates are stored for tokens and for their classes. The class based estimates are interpolated with the word-based estimates once the most specific matching context is found.

Specified by:

categorize in interface TokenCategorizer

Parameters:

token - Token whose class is returned.

Returns:

String representing the class of a token.

categories

public String[] categories()

Returns an array of strings representing all the categories produced by this categorizer.

Specified by:

categories in interface TokenCategorizer

Returns:

Array of categories produced by this categorizer.

compileTo

public void compileTo(ObjectOutput objOut)
               throws IOException

Compiles this token categorizer to the specified object output. The categorizer read back in is reference identical to the static constant CATEGORIZER.

Specified by:

compileTo in interface Compilable

Parameters:

objOut - Object output to which this categorizer is written.

Throws:

IOException - If there is an underlying I/O exception during the write.a