package edu.northwestern.at.utils.corpuslinguistics.spellingmapper;
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import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import edu.northwestern.at.utils.*;
/** Maps British to American spellings.
*/
public class BritishToUSSpellingMapper
implements SpellingMapper
{
/** Resource file with British/American mappings.
*/
protected static final String wordMapPath = "resources/abbc.tab";
/** Hash map with British spelling as key and American spelling as value.
*/
protected static Map<String,String> britToUSMap =null;
/** Create British to US spelling mapper.
*/
public BritishToUSSpellingMapper()
{
// Load the British to US word map if
// not already loaded.
if ( britToUSMap == null )
{
try
{
britToUSMap = MapFactory.createNewMap();
loadBritishToUSWordMap();
}
catch ( Exception e )
{
}
}
}
/** Load the British to US mapping data.
*/
protected void loadBritishToUSWordMap()
throws MalformedURLException, IOException
{
// URL for British/US mapping word list.
URL wordMapURL =
BritishToUSSpellingMapper.class.getResource( wordMapPath );
BufferedReader mapReader =
new BufferedReader
(
new UnicodeReader
(
wordMapURL.openStream()
)
);
// Load hash map with key=british
// spelling and value=US spelling.
// First token on each line is the
// US spelling, followed by an ascii tab,
// followed by the matching British
// spelling. We ignore the rest of
// the text on each line.
String line = mapReader.readLine();
while ( line != null )
{
StringTokenizer tokens = new StringTokenizer( line , "\t" );
String usWord = tokens.nextToken().trim();
String britWord = tokens.nextToken().trim();
britToUSMap.put( britWord , usWord );
line = mapReader.readLine();
}
mapReader.close();
}
/** Returns U.S. spelling given a British spelling.
*
* @param spelling The spelling.
*
* @return The mapped spelling.
*/
public String mapSpelling( String spelling )
{
String result = spelling;
String usSpelling =
britToUSMap.get( spelling.toLowerCase() );
if ( usSpelling != null )
{
result = CharUtils.makeCaseMatch( usSpelling , spelling );
}
return result;
}
}
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