edu.columbia.cs.ref.model
Class Sentence

java.lang.Object
  edu.columbia.cs.ref.model.FeaturableObject
      edu.columbia.cs.ref.model.Sentence

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable

public class Sentence
extends FeaturableObject
implements java.io.Serializable

The Class Sentence represents sentences that are present in a document.

A sentence is composed by three basic attributes:

1) The document where the sentence is contained

2) The starting index of the sentence in the document

3) The length of the sentence

Since:

2011-09-27

Version:

0.1

Author:

Pablo Barrio, Goncalo Simoes

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

Sentence(Document d, int offset, int length)
Instantiates a new sentence.

Method Summary

int	getLength() Gets the length of the sentence.
int	getOffset() Gets the starting index of the sentence in the document.
java.lang.String	getValue() Gets the value of the sentence.
Sentence	merge(Sentence nextSentence) Merge.
void	setLength(int length) Sets the length of the sentence.
void	setOffset(int offset) Sets the starting index of the sentence in the document.
java.lang.String	toString()

Methods inherited from class edu.columbia.cs.ref.model.FeaturableObject

getFeatures, setFeatures

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Sentence

public Sentence(Document d,
                int offset,
                int length)

Instantiates a new sentence.

Parameters:

d - the d

offset - the offset

length - the length

Method Detail

setOffset

public void setOffset(int offset)

Sets the starting index of the sentence in the document.

Parameters:

offset - the new starting index of the sentence in the document

getOffset

public int getOffset()

Gets the starting index of the sentence in the document.

Returns:

the starting index of the sentence in the document

setLength

public void setLength(int length)

Sets the length of the sentence.

Parameters:

length - the new length of the sentence

getLength

public int getLength()

Gets the length of the sentence.

Returns:

the length of the sentence

getValue

public java.lang.String getValue()

Gets the value of the sentence.

Returns:

the value of the sentence

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object

merge

public Sentence merge(Sentence nextSentence)

Merge.

Parameters:

nextSentence - the next sentence

Returns:

the sentence