edu.northwestern.at.morphadorner.corpuslinguistics.inflector.wordrule

Class CategoryInflectionRule

java.lang.Object

edu.northwestern.at.morphadorner.corpuslinguistics.inflector.wordrule.SuffixInflectionRule

edu.northwestern.at.morphadorner.corpuslinguistics.inflector.wordrule.CategoryInflectionRule

All Implemented Interfaces:

WordRule

public class CategoryInflectionRule
extends SuffixInflectionRule

A rule for specifying an inflection using suffixes that only applies to a subset of words with those suffixes (a category).

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 java.lang.String	regex

Fields inherited from class edu.northwestern.at.morphadorner.corpuslinguistics.inflector.wordrule.SuffixInflectionRule

pluralSuffix, singularSuffix

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
CategoryInflectionRule(java.lang.String[] words, java.lang.String singularSuffix, java.lang.String pluralSuffix) Construct a rule for words with suffix singularSuffix which becomes pluralSuffix in the plural.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	applies(java.lang.String word) Tests to see if this rule applies for the given word.

Methods inherited from class edu.northwestern.at.morphadorner.corpuslinguistics.inflector.wordrule.SuffixInflectionRule

apply

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

regex

protected final java.lang.String regex

Constructor Detail

CategoryInflectionRule

public CategoryInflectionRule(java.lang.String[] words,
                      java.lang.String singularSuffix,
                      java.lang.String pluralSuffix)

Construct a rule for words with suffix singularSuffix which becomes pluralSuffix in the plural.

Parameters:

words - The set of words which define this category.

singularSuffix - The singular suffix, starting with a "-" character

pluralSuffix - The plural suffix, starting with a "-" character.

Method Detail

applies

public boolean applies(java.lang.String word)

Tests to see if this rule applies for the given word.

Specified by:

applies in interface WordRule

Overrides:

applies in class SuffixInflectionRule

Parameters:

word - The word that is being tested

Returns:

true if this rule should be applied, false otherwise