opennlp.tools.sentdetect
Interface EndOfSentenceScanner

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractEndOfSentenceScanner, DefaultEndOfSentenceScanner

public interface EndOfSentenceScanner

Scans Strings, StringBuffers, and char[] arrays for the offsets of sentence ending characters.

Implementations of this interface can use regular expressions, hand-coded DFAs, and other scanning techniques to locate end of sentence offsets.

Created: Sat Oct 27 11:42:07 2001

Version:

$Id: EndOfSentenceScanner.java,v 1.3 2009/06/04 22:54:23 tsmorton Exp $

Author:

Eric D. Friedman

Method Summary

char[]	getEndOfSentenceCharacters() Returns an array of character which can indicate the end of a sentence.
List<Integer>	getPositions(char[] cbuf) The receiver scans `cbuf' for sentence ending characters and returns their offsets.
List<Integer>	getPositions(String 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.

Method Detail

getEndOfSentenceCharacters

char[] getEndOfSentenceCharacters()

Returns an array of character which can indicate the end of a sentence.

Returns:

an array of character which can indicate the end of a sentence.

getPositions

List<Integer> getPositions(String s)

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

Parameters:

s - a String value

Returns:

a List of Integer objects.

getPositions

List<Integer> getPositions(StringBuffer buf)

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

Parameters:

buf - a StringBuffer value

Returns:

a List of Integer objects.

getPositions

List<Integer> getPositions(char[] cbuf)

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

Parameters:

cbuf - a char[] value

Returns:

a List of Integer objects.