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

Class RegexReplacementRule

java.lang.Object

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

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

All Implemented Interfaces:

WordRule

public class RegexReplacementRule
extends AbstractRegexReplacementRule

A rule specified using a regular expression and a replacement string.

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	replacement

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

pattern

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
RegexReplacementRule(java.lang.String regex, java.lang.String replacement) Construct a rule using the given regular expression and replacement string.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
java.lang.String	replace(java.util.regex.Matcher matcher) Use the state in the given Matcher to perform a replacement.

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

applies, apply, disjunction, disjunction

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

replacement

protected final java.lang.String replacement

Constructor Detail

RegexReplacementRule

public RegexReplacementRule(java.lang.String regex,
                    java.lang.String replacement)

Construct a rule using the given regular expression and replacement string.

Parameters:

regex - The regular expression used to match words.

replacement - The replacement string.

The replacement string may contain references to subsequences captured matching. See Matcher.appendReplacement(java.lang.StringBuffer, java.lang.String).

Method Detail

replace

public java.lang.String replace(java.util.regex.Matcher matcher)

Description copied from class: AbstractRegexReplacementRule

Use the state in the given Matcher to perform a replacement.

Specified by:

replace in class AbstractRegexReplacementRule

Parameters:

matcher - The matcher used to match the word.

Returns:

The transformed word.