cat.lump.ie.textprocessing.sentence

Class Diacritics

java.lang.Object

cat.lump.ie.textprocessing.sentence.Diacritics

public class Diacritics
extends java.lang.Object

This class is indeed a link to icu's normalizer. It casefolds (optional) a text and removes diacritics.

Author:

albarron TODO Determine whether we really need this class or we can insert the ICU's methods in one another.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
Diacritics() Default invocation.
Diacritics(java.lang.Boolean lowercase) At invocation time defining whether the texts are going to be casefolded is required.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static java.lang.String	removeDiacritics(java.lang.String text)
static java.lang.String	removeMarks(java.lang.String text)
java.lang.String	splitDiacritics()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

Diacritics

public Diacritics()

Default invocation. Text is not casefolded.

Diacritics

public Diacritics(java.lang.Boolean lowercase)

At invocation time defining whether the texts are going to be casefolded is required. TODO casefolding seems to be the job of some other class.

Parameters:

lowercase -

Method Detail

removeDiacritics

public static java.lang.String removeDiacritics(java.lang.String text)

removeMarks

public static java.lang.String removeMarks(java.lang.String text)

splitDiacritics

public java.lang.String splitDiacritics()