edu.stanford.nlp.ling
Class StringLabelFactory

java.lang.Object
  edu.stanford.nlp.ling.StringLabelFactory

All Implemented Interfaces:

LabelFactory

public class StringLabelFactory
extends Object
implements LabelFactory

A StringLabelFactory object makes a simple StringLabel out of a String.

Author:

Christopher Manning

Constructor Summary

StringLabelFactory()

Method Summary

Label	newLabel(Label oldLabel) Create a new StringLabel, where the label is formed from the Label object passed in.
Label	newLabel(String labelStr) Make a new label with this String as the "name".
Label	newLabel(String labelStr, int options) Make a new label with this String as the "name".
Label	newLabelFromString(String labelStr) Make a new label with this String as the "name".

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

StringLabelFactory

public StringLabelFactory()

Method Detail

newLabel

public Label newLabel(String labelStr)

Make a new label with this String as the "name".

Specified by:

newLabel in interface LabelFactory

Parameters:

labelStr - A string that determines the content of the label. For a StringLabel, it is exactly the given string

Returns:

The created label

newLabel

public Label newLabel(String labelStr,
                      int options)

Make a new label with this String as the "name".

Specified by:

newLabel in interface LabelFactory

Parameters:

labelStr - A string that determines the content of the label. For a StringLabel, it is exactly the given string

options - The options are ignored by a StringLabelFactory

Returns:

The created label

newLabelFromString

public Label newLabelFromString(String labelStr)

Make a new label with this String as the "name". This version does no decoding -- StringLabels just have a value.

Specified by:

newLabelFromString in interface LabelFactory

Parameters:

labelStr - A string that determines the content of the label. For a StringLabel, it is exactly the given string

Returns:

The created label

newLabel

public Label newLabel(Label oldLabel)

Create a new StringLabel, where the label is formed from the Label object passed in. Depending on what fields each label has, other things will be null.

Specified by:

newLabel in interface LabelFactory

Parameters:

oldLabel - The Label that the new label is being created from

Returns:

a new label of a particular type