Buckwalter (Stanford JavaNLP API)

java.lang.Object
- edu.stanford.nlp.international.arabic.Buckwalter

All Implemented Interfaces:

SerializableFunction<String,String>, Serializable, Function<String,String>
```
public class Buckwalter
extends Object
implements SerializableFunction<String,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 Description

Buckwalter()

Buckwalter(boolean unicodeToBuckwalter)

Method Summary

All Methods Static Methods Instance Methods Concrete Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`String`	`apply(String in)`
`String`	`buckwalterToUnicode(String in)`
`static void`	`main(String[] args)`
`void`	`suppressBuckDigitConversion(boolean b)`
`void`	`suppressBuckPunctConversion(boolean b)`
`String`	`unicodeToBuckwalter(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

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 String apply(String in)
```
Specified by:

apply in interface Function<String,String>

buckwalterToUnicode

public String buckwalterToUnicode(String in)

unicodeToBuckwalter

public String unicodeToBuckwalter(String in)

main

public static void main(String[] args)

Parameters:: args -