/* Copyright (C) 2002 Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, Computer Science Dept. This file is part of "MALLET" (MAchine Learning for LanguagE Toolkit). http://www.cs.umass.edu/~mccallum/mallet This software is provided under the terms of the Common Public License, version 1.0, as published by http://www.opensource.org. For further information, see the file `LICENSE' included with this distribution. */ /** @author Andrew McCallum <a href="mailto:mccallum@cs.umass.edu">mccallum@cs.umass.edu</a> */ package cc.mallet.pipe; import java.io.*; import cc.mallet.types.Instance; import cc.mallet.types.TokenSequence; /** * Transform a character sequence into a token sequence of character N grams. * @author Andrew McCallum <a href="mailto:mccallum@cs.umass.edu">mccallum@cs.umass.edu</a> */ public class CharSequence2CharNGrams extends Pipe implements Serializable { int n; boolean distinguishBorders = false; static char startBorderChar = '>'; static char endBorderChar = '<'; public CharSequence2CharNGrams (int n, boolean distinguishBorders) { this.n = n; this.distinguishBorders = distinguishBorders; } protected String[] ngramify (CharSequence s) { if (distinguishBorders) s = new StringBuffer().append(startBorderChar).append(s).append(endBorderChar).toString(); int count = s.length() - n; String[] ngrams = new String[count]; for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) ngrams[i] = s.subSequence (i, i+n).toString(); return ngrams; } public Instance pipe (Instance carrier) { if (carrier.getData() instanceof CharSequence) carrier.setData(new TokenSequence (ngramify ((CharSequence)carrier.getData()))); else if (carrier.getData() instanceof TokenSequence) { TokenSequence ts = (TokenSequence) carrier.getData(); TokenSequence ret = new TokenSequence (); for (int i = 0; i < ts.size(); i++) ret.add (ngramify (ts.get(i).getText()).toString()); carrier.setData(ret); } else throw new IllegalArgumentException ("Unhandled type "+carrier.getData().getClass()); return carrier; } // Serialization private static final long serialVersionUID = 1; private static final int CURRENT_SERIAL_VERSION = 0; private void writeObject (ObjectOutputStream out) throws IOException { out.writeInt (CURRENT_SERIAL_VERSION); out.writeInt(n); out.writeBoolean(distinguishBorders); } private void readObject (ObjectInputStream in) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException { int version = in.readInt (); n = in.readInt(); distinguishBorders = in.readBoolean(); } }