I have to take a text. Count all the words in the text. This is logical. What really confuses me is how the machine is going to make a difference between plural pronouns, personal pronouns,determiners because what I have to do is count them all and ofcourse just printout the amount of each.
Thanks in advance.
Perhaps you can create 2 String arrays. One that contains all the personal pronouns, and one with all of the Plural pronouns.
Then when you read all the words through the text, do a search on every word. If any of the words equals anything in either of the 2 arrays, then you can add 1 to a variable called for instance, pluralPro or personalPro.
There aren't many plural and personal pronouns. So it shouldn't be a horrid task. :)
Link to pronouns:
http://grammar.uoregon.edu/pronouns/personal.html
Yes,I got the poin but what I need is a model code, to write the program.
This is the original task:
Your program counts the words in each of the following categories
Category 1 (determiners) word count (wc1):
a, as, the, this, that, its, one, two, more, some; any numeric such as 21 or 1.234.
Category 2 (plural pronouns) word count (wc2):
they, them, those
Category 3 (conjunctives) word count (wc3):
for, with, in, and, not, when, if, unless, but
Category 4 (personal pronouns) word count (wc4):
I, you, she, their, myself, yourself, herself, us
Thank you,again..
> Yes,I got the poin but what I need is a model code,
> to write the program. This is the original task:
Just an idea which basically runs along the same idea of the Chain
Of Responsibilities Pattern; here's one 'Responsibility:public interface Responsibility {
boolean processed(String word);
Map<String, Integer> getStatistics();
}
If you feed a word to a Responsibility through its 'processsed' method,
it either did process it or not. If not, feed the word to a 'next' Responsibility.
When all words have been processed, ask each Responsibility for its
statistics (read: word count). Here's an example of a Responsibility
that can process plural nouns:public class PluralNouns extends HashMap<String, Integer> {
public PluralNouns() {
// prefill the map (there are much smarter ways to do this)
put("they, null);
put("them", null);
put("those", null);
}
//
public boolean processed(String word) {
if (!contains(word)) return false; // no one of ours.
Integer i= get(word);
if (i == null)
i= 0;
put(word, i+1);
return true; // yep, it was one of ours and count's been updated
}
//
public Map<String, Integer> getStatistics() {
return this; // much better stats can be retrieved here
}
}
Build all those different Responsibilities, stick them in a Collection and
for every word check if one of them considers the word 'processed'. If
so go on to the next word, if not ask the next Responsibility.
kind regards,
Jos
