edu.ucla.sspace.text.corpora

Class ChildesCorpusReader

java.lang.Object

edu.ucla.sspace.text.DirectoryCorpusReader<Document>

edu.ucla.sspace.text.corpora.ChildesCorpusReader

All Implemented Interfaces:

CorpusReader<Document>

public class ChildesCorpusReader
extends DirectoryCorpusReader<Document>

A corpus reader for the Childes corpus. Individual files will be traversed using an xml parser. Documents can be returned either as all of the utterances in a file or a single utterance.

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Class and Description
class	ChildesCorpusReader.ChildesFileIterator

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class edu.ucla.sspace.text.DirectoryCorpusReader

DirectoryCorpusReader.BaseFileIterator

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
ChildesCorpusReader() Constructs a new ChildesCorpusReader that uses no preprocessing before documents are returned.
ChildesCorpusReader(DocumentPreprocessor preprocessor) Constructs a new ChildesCorpusReader that uses preprocessor to clean documents before they are returned.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
protected Iterator<Document>	corpusIterator(Iterator<File> files) Returns an Iterator over documents contained in the Files traversed by fileIter.

Methods inherited from class edu.ucla.sspace.text.DirectoryCorpusReader

initialize, read, read

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

ChildesCorpusReader

public ChildesCorpusReader()

Constructs a new ChildesCorpusReader that uses no preprocessing before documents are returned.

ChildesCorpusReader

public ChildesCorpusReader(DocumentPreprocessor preprocessor)

Constructs a new ChildesCorpusReader that uses preprocessor to clean documents before they are returned.

Method Detail

corpusIterator

protected Iterator<Document> corpusIterator(Iterator<File> files)

Returns an Iterator over documents contained in the Files traversed by fileIter. Sub-classes are encouraged to sub-class BaseFileIterator for the return value of this method.

Specified by:

corpusIterator in class DirectoryCorpusReader<Document>