uk.ac.open.crc.mdsc

Class AcronymDictionaryManager

java.lang.Object

uk.ac.open.crc.mdsc.DictionaryManager

uk.ac.open.crc.mdsc.AcronymDictionaryManager

public class AcronymDictionaryManager
extends DictionaryManager

Provides a dictionary for looking up acronyms. The dictionary is not intended to provide alternative spellings, merely to be used as a service to determine if a misspelt word (according to the DefaultDictionaryManager is a known acronym. The dictionary can therefore be used to make decisions about retaining the acronym rather than using abbreviation expansion or a suggested alternative spelling.

The acronyms are normalised to lower case. A future version will include non-normalised acronyms so that the standard typography can be used to support the correction of typography in identifier names, if required.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
AcronymDictionaryManager() Creates a default set of normalised acronym dictionaries.

Method Summary

Methods inherited from class uk.ac.open.crc.mdsc.DictionaryManager

create, create, create, dictionarySet, reset, setCostThreshold, setMaximumSuggestions

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

AcronymDictionaryManager

public AcronymDictionaryManager()

Creates a default set of normalised acronym dictionaries. These are a set of acronyms with trailing digits found in identifier names during our research, and acronyms extracted from the en_GB and en_US abbreviations to size 70 found in the SCOWL word lists.