com.parc.chat.tokenizer

Class EmoticonFST

java.lang.Object

com.parc.chat.tokenizer.EmoticonFST

public class EmoticonFST
extends Object

Finite-state transducer that recognizers emoticons.

Author:

Kyle Dent

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
EmoticonFST()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static boolean	isInitialEmoticonChar(char c)
static int	recognizeEmoticon(String str) Determines if the next token in the supplied string is an emoticon.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

EmoticonFST

public EmoticonFST()

Method Detail

recognizeEmoticon

public static int recognizeEmoticon(String str)

Determines if the next token in the supplied string is an emoticon. The function tries to match any of many types of emoticons up until it encounters the first space in the string. If an emoticon is found, it returns the length of the emoticon and otherwise returns 0.

Parameters:

str - - the string to be checked for an emoticon

Returns:

an integer representing the length of the emoticon from the beginning of the string or 0 if an emoticon cannot be matched

isInitialEmoticonChar

public static boolean isInitialEmoticonChar(char c)