ch.uzh.ifi.attempto.preditor.text
Interface ContextChecker

All Known Implementing Classes:
EnglishContextChecker

public interface ContextChecker

This class represents a context checker that is able to do small surface adaptations of a token according to the surrounding tokens. E.g. in English "a" should become "an" in front of "apple".

Author:
Tobias Kuhn

Method Summary
 java.lang.String getTextInContext(TextElement textElement, java.lang.String precedingText, java.lang.String followingText)
          This method should return the adapted text of the text element if it occurs between the given tokens.
 

Method Detail

getTextInContext

java.lang.String getTextInContext(TextElement textElement,
                                  java.lang.String precedingText,
                                  java.lang.String followingText)
This method should return the adapted text of the text element if it occurs between the given tokens.

Parameters:
textElement - The text element whose text should be adapted to the context.
precedingText - The preceding token.
followingText - The following token.
Returns:
The adapted text.


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