spellchecker.java

一个自然语言处理的Java开源工具包。LingPipe目前已有很丰富的功能

/*
 * LingPipe v. 3.5
 * Copyright (C) 2003-2008 Alias-i
 *
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 * Royalty Free License Version 1 for more details.
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package com.aliasi.spell;

/**
 * The <code>SpellChecker</code> interface specifies a single method
 * for first-best spelling correction.
 *
 * @author  Bob Carpenter
 * @version 2.0
 * @since   LingPipe2.0
 */
public interface SpellChecker {

    /**
     * Returns a first-best hypothesis of the intended message given
     * the received message.  The returned result will be
     * <code>null</code> if the received message itself is the best
     * hypothesis.
     *
     * @param receivedMsg Input string to correct.
     * @return The first-best hypotheses of what was meant.
     */
    public String didYouMean(String receivedMsg);

}