eu.crydee.syllablecounter

Class SyllableCounter

java.lang.Object

eu.crydee.syllablecounter.SyllableCounter

public class SyllableCounter
extends Object

Fallback syllable counter. Based on the work of Thomas Jakobsen (thomj05@student.uia.no) and Thomas Skardal (thomas04@student.uia.no) for the NLTK readability plugin . Their work is itself based on the algorithm in Greg Fast's perl module Lingua::EN::Syllable.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
SyllableCounter()
SyllableCounter(int maxCacheSize)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
int	count(String word) Main point of this library.
int	getCurrentCacheSize() Getter for the current cash size.
void	setMaxCacheSize(int maxCacheSize) Setter for the maximum cash size.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

SyllableCounter

public SyllableCounter()

SyllableCounter

public SyllableCounter(int maxCacheSize)

Method Detail

setMaxCacheSize

public void setMaxCacheSize(int maxCacheSize)

Setter for the maximum cash size.

Parameters:

maxCacheSize - the new maximum size of the cache. Negative to disable caching. Won't clean a cache that was bigger than the new size before.

getCurrentCacheSize

public int getCurrentCacheSize()

Getter for the current cash size. Here mainly to make the cache behavior testable.

Returns:

cacheSize the current size of the cache.

count

public int count(String word)

Main point of this library. Method to count the number of syllables of a word using a fallback method as documented at the class level of this documentation.

Parameters:

word - the word you want to count the syllables of.

Returns:

the number of syllables of the word.