edu.illinois.cs.cogcomp.lbjava.nlp

Class ColumnFormat

java.lang.Object

edu.illinois.cs.cogcomp.lbjava.parse.LineByLine

edu.illinois.cs.cogcomp.lbjava.nlp.ColumnFormat

All Implemented Interfaces:

edu.illinois.cs.cogcomp.lbjava.parse.Parser

Direct Known Subclasses:

CoNLL2000Parser, Reuters2003Parser

public class ColumnFormat
extends edu.illinois.cs.cogcomp.lbjava.parse.LineByLine

This parser returns arrays of Strings representing the rows of a file in column format. The input file is assumed to contain fields of non-whitespace characters separated by any amount of whitespace, one line of which is usually used to represent a word in a corpus. This parser breaks a given line into one String per field, omitting all of the whitespace. They are then returned in an array via next(). If the input line is empty or contains only whitespace, a zero length array will be returned.

Author:

Nick Rizzolo

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class edu.illinois.cs.cogcomp.lbjava.parse.LineByLine

fileName, in

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
ColumnFormat(String file) Creates the parser.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Object	next() Returns an array of Strings representing the information in the columns of this row.

Methods inherited from class edu.illinois.cs.cogcomp.lbjava.parse.LineByLine

close, readLine, reset

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

ColumnFormat

public ColumnFormat(String file)

Creates the parser.

Parameters:

file - The name of the file to parse.

Method Detail

next

public Object next()

Returns an array of Strings representing the information in the columns of this row.