org.crosswire.jsword.book.search
Class Grammar

java.lang.Object
  org.crosswire.jsword.book.search.Grammar

public class Grammar
extends Object

A class representing various grammatical constructs (in English).

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Version:

$Id: Grammar.java,v 1.1 2004/09/29 22:21:23 joe Exp $

Author:

Joe Walker [joe at eireneh dot com]

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Field Summary

private static String[]	ENDINGS The Endings a word can have.
private static String[]	WORD_FREQ The one hundred most used words, and the instance count

Constructor Summary

private

Grammar() Prevent Instansiation

Method Summary

static String	getRoot(String word) Strip of any parts of speech to leave a root word.
static boolean	isSmallWord(String word) Is this word one of those small words that can slaughter a DB query.
static String[]	stripSmallWords(String[] words) Is this word one of those small words that can slaughter a DB query
static String[]	tokenizeWithoutSmallWords(String original, String delims) Like PassageUtil.tokenize that leaves out the small words

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

ENDINGS

private static final String[] ENDINGS

The Endings a word can have. These are matched in order so there is no point in having "s" before "es" because the second will not be tried.

WORD_FREQ

private static final String[] WORD_FREQ

The one hundred most used words, and the instance count

Constructor Detail

Grammar

private Grammar()

Prevent Instansiation

Method Detail

getRoot

public static String getRoot(String word)

Strip of any parts of speech to leave a root word. This class may not be the best place for this code, however I'm not sure if we have a better place for it at the mo. Maybe it should be in passage.PassageUtil?

Parameters:

word - The word to strip

Returns:

The root word

isSmallWord

public static boolean isSmallWord(String word)

Is this word one of those small words that can slaughter a DB query. An empty string IS a small word.

Parameters:

word - The word to test

stripSmallWords

public static String[] stripSmallWords(String[] words)

Is this word one of those small words that can slaughter a DB query

tokenizeWithoutSmallWords

public static String[] tokenizeWithoutSmallWords(String original,
                                                 String delims)

Like PassageUtil.tokenize that leaves out the small words

Parameters:

original - The sentance to split up

delims - The word separators

Returns:

The long words in the string