Package opennlp.tools.sentdetect

Class DefaultEndOfSentenceScanner

java.lang.Object

opennlp.tools.sentdetect.DefaultEndOfSentenceScanner

All Implemented Interfaces:

EndOfSentenceScanner

public class DefaultEndOfSentenceScanner
extends Object
implements EndOfSentenceScanner

Default implementation of the EndOfSentenceScanner. It uses a character array with possible end of sentence chars to identify potential sentence endings.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
DefaultEndOfSentenceScanner(char[] eosCharacters)	Initializes the current instance.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Set<Character>	getEOSCharacters()
List<Integer>	getPositions(char[] cbuf)	The receiver scans cbuf for sentence ending characters and returns their offsets.
List<Integer>	getPositions(CharSequence s)	The receiver scans the specified string for sentence ending characters and returns their offsets.
List<Integer>	getPositions(StringBuffer buf)	The receiver scans buf for sentence ending characters and returns their offsets.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Details

DefaultEndOfSentenceScanner

public DefaultEndOfSentenceScanner(char[] eosCharacters)

Initializes the current instance.

Parameters:

eosCharacters - The characters to be used to detect sentence endings.

Method Details

getPositions

public List<Integer> getPositions(CharSequence s)

Description copied from interface: EndOfSentenceScanner

The receiver scans the specified string for sentence ending characters and returns their offsets.

Specified by:

getPositions in interface EndOfSentenceScanner

Parameters:

s - A CharSequence to be scanned.

Returns:

A List of Integer objects.

getPositions

public List<Integer> getPositions(StringBuffer buf)

Description copied from interface: EndOfSentenceScanner

The receiver scans buf for sentence ending characters and returns their offsets.

Specified by:

getPositions in interface EndOfSentenceScanner

Parameters:

buf - A StringBuffer to be scanned.

Returns:

A List of Integer objects.

getPositions

public List<Integer> getPositions(char[] cbuf)

Description copied from interface: EndOfSentenceScanner

The receiver scans cbuf for sentence ending characters and returns their offsets.

Specified by:

getPositions in interface EndOfSentenceScanner

Parameters:

cbuf - A char[] to be scanned.

Returns:

A List of Integer objects.

getEOSCharacters

public Set<Character> getEOSCharacters()

Specified by:

getEOSCharacters in interface EndOfSentenceScanner

Returns:

a set of characters which can indicate the end of a sentence.