Package org.apache.lucene.analysis.hunspell

Class Hunspell

java.lang.Object
org.apache.lucene.analysis.hunspell.Hunspell
public class Hunspell extends Object
A spell checker based on Hunspell dictionaries. This class can be used in place of native Hunspell for many languages for spell-checking and suggesting purposes. Note that not all languages are supported yet. For example:
  • Hungarian (as it doesn't only rely on dictionaries, but has some logic directly in the source code
  • Languages with Unicode characters outside of the Basic Multilingual Plane
  • PHONE affix file option for suggestions

The objects of this class are thread-safe.

  • Constructor Details

    • Hunspell

      public Hunspell(Dictionary dictionary)

    • Hunspell

      public Hunspell(Dictionary dictionary, TimeoutPolicy policy, Runnable checkCanceled)
      Parameters:
      policy - a strategy determining what to do when API calls take too much time
      checkCanceled - an object that's periodically called, allowing to interrupt spell-checking or suggestion generation by throwing an exception

  • Method Details

    • spell

      public boolean spell(String word)
      Returns:
      whether the given word's spelling is considered correct according to Hunspell rules

    • getRoots

      public List<String> getRoots(String word)
      Find all roots that could result in the given word after case conversion and adding affixes. This corresponds to the original hunspell -s (stemming) functionality.

      Some affix rules are relaxed in this stemming process: e.g. explicitly forbidden words are still returned. Some of the returned roots may be synthetic and not directly occur in the *.dic file (but differ from some existing entries in case). No roots are returned for compound words.

      The returned roots may be used to retrieve morphological data via Dictionary.lookupEntries(java.lang.String).

    • analyzeSimpleWord

      public List<AffixedWord> analyzeSimpleWord(String word)
      Returns:
      all possible analyses of the given word with stems, prefixes, suffixed and morphological data. Note that the order of the returned objects might not correspond to the *.dic file order!

    • getAllWordForms

      public List<AffixedWord> getAllWordForms(String root)
      Generate all word forms for all dictionary entries with the given root word. The result order is stable but not specified. This is equivalent to "unmunch" from the "hunspell-tools" package.
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    • compress

      public EntrySuggestion compress(List<String> words)
      Given a list of words, try to produce a smaller set of dictionary entries (with some flags) that would generate these words. This is equivalent to "munch" from the "hunspell-tools" package.
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    • suggest

      public List<String> suggest(String word) throws SuggestionTimeoutException
      Returns:
      suggestions for the given misspelled word
      Throws:
      SuggestionTimeoutException - if the computation takes too long and TimeoutPolicy.THROW_EXCEPTION was specified in the constructor
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    • suggest

      public List<String> suggest(String word, long timeLimitMs) throws SuggestionTimeoutException
      Parameters:
      word - the misspelled word to calculate suggestions for
      timeLimitMs - the duration limit in milliseconds, after which the associated TimeoutPolicy's effects (exception or partial result) may kick in
      Throws:
      SuggestionTimeoutException - if the computation takes too long and TimeoutPolicy.THROW_EXCEPTION was specified in the constructor
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