opennlp.tools.tokenize

Class WhitespaceTokenizer

java.lang.Object

opennlp.tools.tokenize.WhitespaceTokenizer

All Implemented Interfaces:

Tokenizer

public class WhitespaceTokenizer
extends java.lang.Object

This tokenizer uses white spaces to tokenize the input text. To obtain an instance of this tokenizer use the static final INSTANCE field.

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static WhitespaceTokenizer	INSTANCE Use this static reference to retrieve an instance of the WhitespaceTokenizer.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
java.lang.String[]	tokenize(java.lang.String s) Splits a string into its atomic parts
Span[]	tokenizePos(java.lang.String d) Finds the boundaries of atomic parts in a string.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

INSTANCE

public static final WhitespaceTokenizer INSTANCE

Use this static reference to retrieve an instance of the WhitespaceTokenizer.

Method Detail

tokenizePos

public Span[] tokenizePos(java.lang.String d)

Description copied from interface: Tokenizer

Finds the boundaries of atomic parts in a string.

Parameters:

d - The string to be tokenized.

Returns:

The Span[] with the spans (offsets into s) for each token as the individuals array elements.

tokenize

public java.lang.String[] tokenize(java.lang.String s)

Description copied from interface: Tokenizer

Splits a string into its atomic parts

Specified by:

tokenize in interface Tokenizer

Parameters:

s - The string to be tokenized.

Returns:

The String[] with the individual tokens as the array elements.