[OPENNLP-434] Create a Factory to customize the Sentence Detector

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: tools-1.5.3
• Fix Version/s: tools-1.5.3
• Component/s: Command Line Interface, Sentence Detector
• Assignee: William Colen
• Reporter: William Colen
• Created: 16/Feb/12 12:59
• Updated: 27/Feb/12 16:28
• Resolved: 27/Feb/12 16:28

Description

Implement a mechanism to customize Sentence Detector using a factory. We should use the code infrastructure created for issue #429.

The plan is:

• create a SentenceDetectorFactory
  • create a SentenceDetectorFactory object by passing the language code (for backward compatibility), the abbreviations (Set<String> ?) and the EOS characters
  • getters for the ContextGenerator, EOSScanner, EOSChars, Abbreviation Dictionary
  • the default implementation would use the existent Factory class from lang package
• we need to decide if we keep the language dependent factory as is