edu.northwestern.at.morphadorner.corpuslinguistics.contractionexpander

Class EnglishContractionExpander

java.lang.Object

edu.northwestern.at.utils.IsCloseableObject

edu.northwestern.at.morphadorner.corpuslinguistics.contractionexpander.AbstractContractionExpander

edu.northwestern.at.morphadorner.corpuslinguistics.contractionexpander.EnglishContractionExpander

All Implemented Interfaces:

ContractionExpander, UsesLogger

Direct Known Subclasses:

DefaultContractionExpander

public class EnglishContractionExpander
extends AbstractContractionExpander
implements ContractionExpander

A contraction expander for English.

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
protected static java.lang.String	contractedSpellingsFileName Path to list of contracted spellings.
protected WordTokenizer	contractionTokenizer Contraction tokenizer.

Fields inherited from class edu.northwestern.at.morphadorner.corpuslinguistics.contractionexpander.AbstractContractionExpander

contractedSpellings, logger

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
EnglishContractionExpander() Create an English contraction expander.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
java.lang.String	expandContraction(java.lang.String spelling) Returns an expanded spelling for a contracted spelling.

Methods inherited from class edu.northwestern.at.morphadorner.corpuslinguistics.contractionexpander.AbstractContractionExpander

getLogger, loadContractedSpellings, setLogger

Methods inherited from class edu.northwestern.at.utils.IsCloseableObject

close

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

contractedSpellingsFileName

protected static java.lang.String contractedSpellingsFileName

Path to list of contracted spellings.

The contracted spellings file contains pairs of contracted forms and expanded forms separated by a tab character. Each line of the file contains one pair.

contractionTokenizer

protected WordTokenizer contractionTokenizer

Contraction tokenizer.

Constructor Detail

EnglishContractionExpander

public EnglishContractionExpander()

Create an English contraction expander.

Method Detail

expandContraction

public java.lang.String expandContraction(java.lang.String spelling)

Returns an expanded spelling for a contracted spelling.

Specified by:

expandContraction in interface ContractionExpander

Overrides:

expandContraction in class AbstractContractionExpander

Parameters:

spelling - The spelling.

Returns:

The expanded form of the contraction.