edu.stanford.nlp.ling
Class WordFactory

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

All Implemented Interfaces:

LabelFactory

public class WordFactory
extends Object
implements LabelFactory

A WordFactory acts as a factory for creating objects of class Word.

Author:

Christopher Manning

Constructor Summary

WordFactory()
Creates a new WordFactory.

Method Summary

Label	newLabel(Label oldLabel) Create a new Word Label, where the label is formed from the Label object passed in.
Label	newLabel(String word) Create a new word, where the label is formed from the String passed in.
Label	newLabel(String word, int options) Create a new word, where the label is formed from the String passed in.
Label	newLabelFromString(String word) Create a new word, where the label is formed from the String passed in.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

WordFactory

public WordFactory()

Creates a new WordFactory.

Method Detail

newLabel

public Label newLabel(String word)

Create a new word, where the label is formed from the String passed in.

Specified by:

newLabel in interface LabelFactory

Parameters:

word - The word that will go into the Word

Returns:

The new label

newLabel

public Label newLabel(String word,
                      int options)

Create a new word, where the label is formed from the String passed in.

Specified by:

newLabel in interface LabelFactory

Parameters:

word - The word that will go into the Word

options - is ignored by a WordFactory

Returns:

The new label

newLabelFromString

public Label newLabelFromString(String word)

Create a new word, where the label is formed from the String passed in.

Specified by:

newLabelFromString in interface LabelFactory

Parameters:

word - The word that will go into the Word

Returns:

The new label

newLabel

public Label newLabel(Label oldLabel)

Create a new Word Label, 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