net.java.sen.dictionary
Class Viterbi

java.lang.Object
  net.java.sen.dictionary.Viterbi

public class Viterbi
extends Object

An implementation of the Viterbi algorithm used to find the most likely sequence of morphemes comprising a sentence

Thread Safety: Objects of this class are NOT thread safe and should not be accessed simultaneously by multiple threads. Note that creating additional instances using SenFactory is relatively cheap in both memory and time

Constructor Summary

Viterbi(Tokenizer tokenizer)
Creates a Viterbi instance using the given Tokenizer

Method Summary

List<Token>	getBestTokens(Sentence sentence) Deprecated. use getBestTokens(Sentence, List) instead
List<Token>	getBestTokens(Sentence sentence, List<Token> reuse) Analyses a sentence to find the most likely sequence of morphemes
List<Token>	getPossibleTokens(Sentence sentence, int position) Gets the possible tokens from a Sentence at a given position.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

Viterbi

public Viterbi(Tokenizer tokenizer)

Creates a Viterbi instance using the given Tokenizer

Parameters:

tokenizer - The Tokenizer to use

Method Detail

getPossibleTokens

public List<Token> getPossibleTokens(Sentence sentence,
                                     int position)
                              throws IOException

Gets the possible tokens from a Sentence at a given position. Any reading constraints on the Sentence are ignored

Parameters:

sentence - The Sentence to search within

position - The position to search at

Returns:

A list of possible Tokens

Throws:

IOException

getBestTokens

public List<Token> getBestTokens(Sentence sentence,
                                 List<Token> reuse)
                          throws IOException

Analyses a sentence to find the most likely sequence of morphemes

Parameters:

sentence - The sentence to analyse

Returns:

The most likely list of morphemes

Throws:

IOException

getBestTokens

@Deprecated
public List<Token> getBestTokens(Sentence sentence)
                          throws IOException

Deprecated. use getBestTokens(Sentence, List) instead

Throws:

IOException