edu.stanford.nlp.international.arabic

Class Buckwalter

java.lang.Object

edu.stanford.nlp.international.arabic.Buckwalter

All Implemented Interfaces:

SerializableFunction<java.lang.String,java.lang.String>, java.io.Serializable, java.util.function.Function<java.lang.String,java.lang.String>

public class Buckwalter
extends java.lang.Object
implements SerializableFunction<java.lang.String,java.lang.String>

This class can convert between Unicode and Buckwalter encodings of Arabic.

Sources

"MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS & POS ANNOTATION," v3.8. LDC. 08 June 2009. http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/morph/buckwalter.html http://www.qamus.org/transliteration.htm (Tim Buckwalter's site) http://www.livingflowers.com/Arabic_transliteration (many but hard to use) http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~cis639/arabic/info/romanization.html http://www.nongnu.org/aramorph/english/index.html (Java AraMorph) BBN's MBuckWalter2Unicode.tab see also my GALE-NOTES.txt file for other mappings ROSETTA people do. Normalization of decomposed characters to composed: ARABIC LETTER ALEF (ا), ARABIC MADDAH ABOVE (ٓ) -> ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE ARABIC LETTER ALEF (ا), ARABIC HAMZA ABOVE (ٔ) -> ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA ABOVE (أ) ARABIC LETTER WAW, ARABIC HAMZA ABOVE -> ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH HAMZA ABOVE ARABIC LETTER ALEF, ARABIC HAMZA BELOW (ٕ) -> ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW ARABIC LETTER YEH, ARABIC HAMZA ABOVE -> ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE

Author:

Christopher Manning, Spence Green

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
Buckwalter()
Buckwalter(boolean unicodeToBuckwalter)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
java.lang.String	apply(java.lang.String in)
java.lang.String	buckwalterToUnicode(java.lang.String in)
static void	main(java.lang.String[] args)
void	suppressBuckDigitConversion(boolean b)
void	suppressBuckPunctConversion(boolean b)
java.lang.String	unicodeToBuckwalter(java.lang.String in)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface java.util.function.Function

andThen, compose, identity

Constructor Detail

Buckwalter

public Buckwalter()

Buckwalter

public Buckwalter(boolean unicodeToBuckwalter)

Method Detail

suppressBuckDigitConversion

public void suppressBuckDigitConversion(boolean b)

suppressBuckPunctConversion

public void suppressBuckPunctConversion(boolean b)

apply

public java.lang.String apply(java.lang.String in)

Specified by:

apply in interface java.util.function.Function<java.lang.String,java.lang.String>

buckwalterToUnicode

public java.lang.String buckwalterToUnicode(java.lang.String in)

unicodeToBuckwalter

public java.lang.String unicodeToBuckwalter(java.lang.String in)

main

public static void main(java.lang.String[] args)

Parameters:

args -