edu.northwestern.at.morphadorner.corpuslinguistics.inflector.pluralizer

Class EnglishPluralizer

java.lang.Object

edu.northwestern.at.morphadorner.corpuslinguistics.inflector.pluralizer.RuleBasedPluralizer

edu.northwestern.at.morphadorner.corpuslinguistics.inflector.pluralizer.EnglishPluralizer

All Implemented Interfaces:

Pluralizer

Direct Known Subclasses:

DefaultPluralizer

public class EnglishPluralizer
extends RuleBasedPluralizer

English language pluralizer.

Based upon the paper "An Algorithmic Approach to English Pluralization" by Damian Conway at http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/HTML/Plurals.html .

Original code written by Tom White under the Apache v2 license. Modified by Philip R. Burns for integration into MorphAdorner.

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
protected static java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.String>	ACCUSATIVE_PRONOUNS
protected static java.lang.String[]	CATEGORY_A_AE_RULE
protected static java.lang.String[]	CATEGORY_EX_ICES_RULE
protected static java.lang.String[]	CATEGORY_IX_ICES_RULE
protected static java.lang.String[]	CATEGORY_MAN_MANS_RULE
protected static java.lang.String[]	CATEGORY_O_OS_RULE
protected static java.lang.String[]	CATEGORY_ON_A_RULE
protected static java.lang.String[]	CATEGORY_SINGULAR_S_RULE
protected static java.lang.String[]	CATEGORY_UM_A_RULE
protected static java.lang.String[]	CATEGORY_UNINFLECTED_NOUNS
protected static java.lang.String[]	CATEGORY_US_I_RULE
protected static java.lang.String[]	CLASSICAL_A_AE_RULE
protected static java.lang.String[]	CLASSICAL_A_ATA_RULE
protected static java.lang.String[]	CLASSICAL_EIX_ICES_RULE
protected static java.lang.String[]	CLASSICAL_EN_INA_RULE
protected static java.lang.String[]	CLASSICAL_O_I_RULE
protected static java.lang.String[]	CLASSICAL_ON_A_RULE
protected static java.lang.String[]	CLASSICAL_UM_A
protected static java.lang.String[]	CLASSICAL_US_I_RULE
protected static java.lang.String[]	CLASSICAL_US_US_RULE
protected static java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.String>	IRREGULAR_NOUNS
protected static java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.String>	NOMINATIVE_PRONOUNS
protected static java.lang.String	POSTFIX_ADJECTIVE_REGEX
protected static java.lang.String[]	PREPOSITIONS
protected java.util.List<WordRule>	rules

Fields inherited from class edu.northwestern.at.morphadorner.corpuslinguistics.inflector.pluralizer.RuleBasedPluralizer

fallbackPluralizer, locale, NOOP_PLURALIZER

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
EnglishPluralizer() Create Engish pluralizer.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
protected java.lang.String	postProcess(java.lang.String trimmedWord, java.lang.String pluralizedWord) Fix case of pluralized word.

Methods inherited from class edu.northwestern.at.morphadorner.corpuslinguistics.inflector.pluralizer.RuleBasedPluralizer

getFallbackPluralizer, getLocale, getRules, pluralize, pluralize, pluralizeInternal, setFallbackPluralizer, setLocale, setRules

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

POSTFIX_ADJECTIVE_REGEX

protected static final java.lang.String POSTFIX_ADJECTIVE_REGEX

See Also:

Constant Field Values

PREPOSITIONS

protected static final java.lang.String[] PREPOSITIONS

NOMINATIVE_PRONOUNS

protected static final java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.String> NOMINATIVE_PRONOUNS

ACCUSATIVE_PRONOUNS

protected static final java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.String> ACCUSATIVE_PRONOUNS

IRREGULAR_NOUNS

protected static final java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.String> IRREGULAR_NOUNS

CATEGORY_UNINFLECTED_NOUNS

protected static final java.lang.String[] CATEGORY_UNINFLECTED_NOUNS

CATEGORY_MAN_MANS_RULE

protected static final java.lang.String[] CATEGORY_MAN_MANS_RULE

CATEGORY_EX_ICES_RULE

protected static final java.lang.String[] CATEGORY_EX_ICES_RULE

CATEGORY_IX_ICES_RULE

protected static final java.lang.String[] CATEGORY_IX_ICES_RULE

CATEGORY_UM_A_RULE

protected static final java.lang.String[] CATEGORY_UM_A_RULE

CLASSICAL_UM_A

protected static final java.lang.String[] CLASSICAL_UM_A

CATEGORY_US_I_RULE

protected static final java.lang.String[] CATEGORY_US_I_RULE

CLASSICAL_US_I_RULE

protected static final java.lang.String[] CLASSICAL_US_I_RULE

CLASSICAL_US_US_RULE

protected static final java.lang.String[] CLASSICAL_US_US_RULE

CATEGORY_ON_A_RULE

protected static final java.lang.String[] CATEGORY_ON_A_RULE

CLASSICAL_ON_A_RULE

protected static final java.lang.String[] CLASSICAL_ON_A_RULE

CLASSICAL_A_ATA_RULE

protected static final java.lang.String[] CLASSICAL_A_ATA_RULE

CATEGORY_A_AE_RULE

protected static final java.lang.String[] CATEGORY_A_AE_RULE

CLASSICAL_A_AE_RULE

protected static final java.lang.String[] CLASSICAL_A_AE_RULE

CLASSICAL_EN_INA_RULE

protected static final java.lang.String[] CLASSICAL_EN_INA_RULE

CLASSICAL_O_I_RULE

protected static final java.lang.String[] CLASSICAL_O_I_RULE

CATEGORY_O_OS_RULE

protected static final java.lang.String[] CATEGORY_O_OS_RULE

CATEGORY_SINGULAR_S_RULE

protected static final java.lang.String[] CATEGORY_SINGULAR_S_RULE

CLASSICAL_EIX_ICES_RULE

protected static final java.lang.String[] CLASSICAL_EIX_ICES_RULE

rules

protected final java.util.List<WordRule> rules

Constructor Detail

EnglishPluralizer

public EnglishPluralizer()

Create Engish pluralizer.

Method Detail

postProcess

protected java.lang.String postProcess(java.lang.String trimmedWord,
                           java.lang.String pluralizedWord)

Fix case of pluralized word.

Overrides:

postProcess in class RuleBasedPluralizer

Parameters:

trimmedWord - The input word, with leading and trailing whitespace removed.

pluralizedWord - The pluralized word.

Returns:

The pluralizedWord after processing.

If trimmedWord is all uppercase, then pluralizedWord is uppercased. If trimmedWord is titlecase, then pluralizedWord is titlecased.