edu.northwestern.at.utils.corpuslinguistics.sentencesplitter
Class ICU4JBreakIteratorSentenceSplitterIterator

java.lang.Object
  edu.northwestern.at.utils.corpuslinguistics.sentencesplitter.ICU4JBreakIteratorSentenceSplitterIterator

All Implemented Interfaces:

SentenceSplitterIterator

Direct Known Subclasses:

DefaultSentenceSplitterIterator

public class ICU4JBreakIteratorSentenceSplitterIterator
extends java.lang.Object
implements SentenceSplitterIterator

BreakIterator-based sentence splitter iterator.

Field Summary

protected int	end End of current sentence.
protected com.ibm.icu.text.BreakIterator	sentenceExtractor BreakIterator used to iterate over sentences.
protected int	start Start of current sentence.
protected java.lang.String	text Text to break up.

Constructor Summary

ICU4JBreakIteratorSentenceSplitterIterator()
Create sentence iterator.

ICU4JBreakIteratorSentenceSplitterIterator(java.util.Locale locale)
Create sentence iterator with specified locale.

ICU4JBreakIteratorSentenceSplitterIterator(java.lang.String text)
Create sentence iterator over text.

ICU4JBreakIteratorSentenceSplitterIterator(java.lang.String text, java.util.Locale locale)
Create sentence iterator over text with specified locale.

Method Summary

boolean	hasNext() Check if there is another sentence available.
java.lang.String	next() Return next sentence.
java.lang.String	peek() Return next sentence without advancing sentence pointer.
void	setText(java.lang.String text) Set the text to split.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

sentenceExtractor

protected com.ibm.icu.text.BreakIterator sentenceExtractor

BreakIterator used to iterate over sentences.

start

protected int start

Start of current sentence.

end

protected int end

End of current sentence.

text

protected java.lang.String text

Text to break up.

Constructor Detail

ICU4JBreakIteratorSentenceSplitterIterator

public ICU4JBreakIteratorSentenceSplitterIterator()

Create sentence iterator.

ICU4JBreakIteratorSentenceSplitterIterator

public ICU4JBreakIteratorSentenceSplitterIterator(java.util.Locale locale)

Create sentence iterator with specified locale.

Parameters:

locale - The locale.

ICU4JBreakIteratorSentenceSplitterIterator

public ICU4JBreakIteratorSentenceSplitterIterator(java.lang.String text)

Create sentence iterator over text.

Parameters:

text - The text from which to extract sentences.

ICU4JBreakIteratorSentenceSplitterIterator

public ICU4JBreakIteratorSentenceSplitterIterator(java.lang.String text,
                                                  java.util.Locale locale)

Create sentence iterator over text with specified locale.

Parameters:

text - The text from which to extract sentences.

locale - The locale.

Method Detail

setText

public void setText(java.lang.String text)

Set the text to split.

Specified by:

setText in interface SentenceSplitterIterator

Parameters:

text - Text to split.

hasNext

public boolean hasNext()

Check if there is another sentence available.

Specified by:

hasNext in interface SentenceSplitterIterator

Returns:

true if another sentence is available.

next

public java.lang.String next()

Return next sentence.

Specified by:

next in interface SentenceSplitterIterator

Returns:

next sentence, or null if none.

peek

public java.lang.String peek()

Return next sentence without advancing sentence pointer.

Specified by:

peek in interface SentenceSplitterIterator

Returns:

next sentence, or null if none.