org.openimaj.text.nlp.patterns

Class PatternProvider

java.lang.Object

org.openimaj.text.nlp.patterns.PatternProvider

Direct Known Subclasses:

AbbreviationPatternProvider, ColloquialismPatternProvider, CombinedPatternProvider, ComplicatedNumberPatternProvider, EdgePunctuationPatternProvider, EmailPatternProvider, EmbeddedApostrophePatternProvider, EmbeddedDashPatternProvider, EmoticonPatternProvider, EntityPatternProvider, PunctuationPatternProvider, TimePatternProvider, TruncatedURLPatternProvider, TwitterStuffPatternProvider, URLPatternProvider

public abstract class PatternProvider
extends Object

Pattern providers must provide a regex string. Pattern providers can be combined

Author:

Sina Samangooei (ss@ecs.soton.ac.uk)

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
PatternProvider()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
PatternProvider	combine(PatternProvider other)
Pattern	pattern()
abstract String	patternString()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

PatternProvider

public PatternProvider()

Method Detail

patternString

public abstract String patternString()

Returns:

a regex string, used by pattern() to compile a regex pattern

pattern

public Pattern pattern()

Returns:

compile a regex pattern, does not reconstruct existing patterns

combine

public PatternProvider combine(PatternProvider other)

Parameters:

other -

Returns:

combine with another pattern