fido.linguistic
Class WordSeparation

java.lang.Object
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public class WordSeparation

extends java.lang.Object

This module breaks up the stream of characters from the client into the sentence into words. A word is defined as a group of non-whitespace characters. Punctuation characters are considered separate words.

After a word has been identified, all characters are converted to lower case.

Constructor Summary

WordSeparation()
Creates a new WordSeparation class.

Method Summary

java.util.Vector

parseSentence(java.lang.String str) Converts a string of characters to a Vector of WordPackages.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

WordSeparation

public WordSeparation()

Creates a new WordSeparation class.

Method Detail

parseSentence

public java.util.Vector parseSentence(java.lang.String str)

Converts a string of characters to a Vector of WordPackages.

Parameters:

str - String of characters from the user

See Also:

WordPackage