Package edu.northwestern.at.morphadorner.corpuslinguistics.contractionexpander

Contraction Expander.

See: Description

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
ContractionExpander	Interface for a Contraction Expander.

Class Summary

Class	Description
AbstractContractionExpander	Abstract ContractionExpander.
ContractionExpanderFactory	ContractionExpander factory.
DefaultContractionExpander	Default Contraction Expander is the English Contraction Expander.
EnglishContractionExpander	A contraction expander for English.

Package edu.northwestern.at.morphadorner.corpuslinguistics.contractionexpander Description

Contraction Expander.

A contraction expander takes a contracted form as input and produces an expanded (uncontracted) form as output. For example, the English language contraction expander expands "don't" to "do not" and "niltow" to "wilt thou not."

All MorphAdorner contraction expanders must implement the ContractionExpander interface. The ContractionExpanderFactory provides the mechanism for instantiating a default or specified instance of a ContractionExpander implementation. The AbstractContractionExpander serves as a base class for deriving concrete implementations of contraction expanders. The DefaultContractionExpander if for English language contractions and just wraps EnglishContractionExpander.