textmaven.stemmer
Class Stemmer_en

java.lang.Object
  textmaven.stemmer.Stemmer_en

All Implemented Interfaces:

IStemmer

public class Stemmer_en

extends java.lang.Object

implements IStemmer

Performs normalization/reduction of english words to its stem.

Author:

krebtho

Constructor Summary

Stemmer_en()

Method Summary

boolean	getGreedy() Returns the greedy mode flag.
java.lang.String	getLanguage()
java.util.Vector	getStem(IDictionary dict, java.lang.String word) Tries to normalize word to its stem form.
static void	main(java.lang.String[] args) Just a simple test
void	setGreedy(boolean flag) Sets the greedy mode flag (@see IStemmer#getGreedy()).
void	setLanguage(java.lang.String language)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

Stemmer_en

public Stemmer_en()

See Also:

Object.Object()

Method Detail

getGreedy

public final boolean getGreedy()

Description copied from interface: IStemmer

Returns the greedy mode flag. In greedy mode normalization will continue searching for stems even if a word matched already.

Specified by:

getGreedy in interface IStemmer

Returns:

boolean

See Also:

IStemmer.getGreedy()

setGreedy

public final void setGreedy(boolean flag)

Description copied from interface: IStemmer

Sets the greedy mode flag (@see IStemmer#getGreedy()).

Specified by:

setGreedy in interface IStemmer

Parameters:

flag - if true greedy mode is enabled.

See Also:

IStemmer.setGreedy(boolean)

getLanguage

public java.lang.String getLanguage()

Specified by:

getLanguage in interface IStemmer

Returns:

Returns the language.

setLanguage

public void setLanguage(java.lang.String language)

Specified by:

setLanguage in interface IStemmer

Parameters:

language - The language to set.

getStem

public java.util.Vector getStem(IDictionary dict,
                                java.lang.String word)

Description copied from interface: IStemmer

Tries to normalize word to its stem form.

Specified by:

getStem in interface IStemmer

Parameters:

dict - source to use for normalizing

word - to be normalized

Returns:

Vector holding translations for normalized word.

See Also:

IStemmer.getStem(textmaven.dictionaries.IDictionary, java.lang.String)

main

public static void main(java.lang.String[] args)

Just a simple test