Package com.viglet.turing.sn.ac

Class TurSNSuggestionAutomaton

Object

TurSNSuggestionAutomaton

public class TurSNSuggestionAutomaton
extends Object

The SuggestionAutomaton class represents a finite state machine used to validate suggestions.

Methods:

• TurSNSuggestionAutomaton(): Constructor that builds the automaton.
• isAddSuggestion(String, int, List): Runs the automaton on a given suggestion, number of words from query, and stop words list.
• getTokenType(List, String): Determines the token type of a given token.

Since:

0.3.9

Author:

Gabriel F. Gomazako

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
static final String	ACCEPT
static final String	ERROR
static final String	FIRST_TERM_OR_STOP_WORD
static final String	PREVIOUS_TERM_IS_WORD

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
TurSNSuggestionAutomaton()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
boolean	isAddSuggestion(String suggestion, int numberOfWordsFromQuery, List<String> stopWords)	Runs the suggestion automaton to determine if a given suggestion is valid.

Methods inherited from class Object

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

Field Details

ACCEPT

public static final String ACCEPT

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• Constant Field Values

ERROR

public static final String ERROR

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• Constant Field Values

FIRST_TERM_OR_STOP_WORD

public static final String FIRST_TERM_OR_STOP_WORD

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• Constant Field Values

PREVIOUS_TERM_IS_WORD

public static final String PREVIOUS_TERM_IS_WORD

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• Constant Field Values

Constructor Details

TurSNSuggestionAutomaton

public TurSNSuggestionAutomaton()

Method Details

isAddSuggestion

public boolean isAddSuggestion(String suggestion,
 int numberOfWordsFromQuery,
 List<String> stopWords)

Runs the suggestion automaton to determine if a given suggestion is valid.

Parameters:

suggestion - the suggestion string to be evaluated.

numberOfWordsFromQuery - the number of words from the current query. It will be used to know how many words the suggestion should have.

stopWords - a list of stop words.

Returns:

true if the suggestion is valid, according to the automaton rules, false otherwise.