Class PhoneticEngine

Converts words into potential phonetic representations.

Inheritance

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PhoneticEngine

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Namespace: Lucene.Net.Analysis.Phonetic.Language.Bm

Assembly: Lucene.Net.Analysis.Phonetic.dll

Syntax

public class PhoneticEngine

Remarks

This is a two-stage process. Firstly, the word is converted into a phonetic representation that takes into account the likely source language. Next, this phonetic representation is converted into a pan-European 'average' representation, allowing comparison between different versions of essentially the same word from different languages.

This class is intentionally immutable and thread-safe. If you wish to alter the settings for a PhoneticEngine, you must make a new one with the updated settings.

Ported from phoneticengine.php

since 1.6

Constructors

PhoneticEngine(NameType, RuleType, bool)

Generates a new, fully-configured phonetic engine.

Declaration

public PhoneticEngine(NameType nameType, RuleType ruleType, bool concat)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
NameType	nameType	The type of names it will use.
RuleType	ruleType	The type of rules it will apply.
bool	concat	If it will concatenate multiple encodings.

Remarks

This is a two-stage process. Firstly, the word is converted into a phonetic representation that takes into account the likely source language. Next, this phonetic representation is converted into a pan-European 'average' representation, allowing comparison between different versions of essentially the same word from different languages.

This class is intentionally immutable and thread-safe. If you wish to alter the settings for a PhoneticEngine, you must make a new one with the updated settings.

Ported from phoneticengine.php

since 1.6

PhoneticEngine(NameType, RuleType, bool, int)

Generates a new, fully-configured phonetic engine.

since 1.7

Declaration

public PhoneticEngine(NameType nameType, RuleType ruleType, bool concat, int maxPhonemes)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
NameType	nameType	The type of names it will use.
RuleType	ruleType	The type of rules it will apply.
bool	concat	If it will concatenate multiple encodings.
int	maxPhonemes	The maximum number of phonemes that will be handled.

Remarks

This is a two-stage process. Firstly, the word is converted into a phonetic representation that takes into account the likely source language. Next, this phonetic representation is converted into a pan-European 'average' representation, allowing comparison between different versions of essentially the same word from different languages.

This class is intentionally immutable and thread-safe. If you wish to alter the settings for a PhoneticEngine, you must make a new one with the updated settings.

Ported from phoneticengine.php

since 1.6

Properties

IsConcat

Gets if multiple phonetic encodings are concatenated or if just the first one is kept. Returns true if multiple phonetic encodings are returned, false if just the first is.

Declaration

public virtual bool IsConcat { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
bool

Remarks

This is a two-stage process. Firstly, the word is converted into a phonetic representation that takes into account the likely source language. Next, this phonetic representation is converted into a pan-European 'average' representation, allowing comparison between different versions of essentially the same word from different languages.

This class is intentionally immutable and thread-safe. If you wish to alter the settings for a PhoneticEngine, you must make a new one with the updated settings.

Ported from phoneticengine.php

since 1.6

Lang

Gets the Lang language guessing rules being used.

Declaration

public virtual Lang Lang { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
Lang

Remarks

This is a two-stage process. Firstly, the word is converted into a phonetic representation that takes into account the likely source language. Next, this phonetic representation is converted into a pan-European 'average' representation, allowing comparison between different versions of essentially the same word from different languages.

This class is intentionally immutable and thread-safe. If you wish to alter the settings for a PhoneticEngine, you must make a new one with the updated settings.

Ported from phoneticengine.php

since 1.6

MaxPhonemes

Gets the maximum number of phonemes the engine will calculate for a given input.

since 1.7

Declaration

public virtual int MaxPhonemes { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
int

Remarks

This is a two-stage process. Firstly, the word is converted into a phonetic representation that takes into account the likely source language. Next, this phonetic representation is converted into a pan-European 'average' representation, allowing comparison between different versions of essentially the same word from different languages.

This class is intentionally immutable and thread-safe. If you wish to alter the settings for a PhoneticEngine, you must make a new one with the updated settings.

Ported from phoneticengine.php

since 1.6

NameType

Gets the NameType being used.

Declaration

public virtual NameType NameType { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
NameType

Remarks

This is a two-stage process. Firstly, the word is converted into a phonetic representation that takes into account the likely source language. Next, this phonetic representation is converted into a pan-European 'average' representation, allowing comparison between different versions of essentially the same word from different languages.

This class is intentionally immutable and thread-safe. If you wish to alter the settings for a PhoneticEngine, you must make a new one with the updated settings.

Ported from phoneticengine.php

since 1.6

RuleType

Gets the RuleType being used.

Declaration

public virtual RuleType RuleType { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
RuleType

Remarks

This is a two-stage process. Firstly, the word is converted into a phonetic representation that takes into account the likely source language. Next, this phonetic representation is converted into a pan-European 'average' representation, allowing comparison between different versions of essentially the same word from different languages.

This class is intentionally immutable and thread-safe. If you wish to alter the settings for a PhoneticEngine, you must make a new one with the updated settings.

Ported from phoneticengine.php

since 1.6

Methods

Encode(string)

Encodes a string to its phonetic representation.

Declaration

public virtual string Encode(string input)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
string	input	The string to encode.

Returns

Type	Description
string	The encoding of the input.

Remarks

This is a two-stage process. Firstly, the word is converted into a phonetic representation that takes into account the likely source language. Next, this phonetic representation is converted into a pan-European 'average' representation, allowing comparison between different versions of essentially the same word from different languages.

This class is intentionally immutable and thread-safe. If you wish to alter the settings for a PhoneticEngine, you must make a new one with the updated settings.

Ported from phoneticengine.php

since 1.6

Encode(string, LanguageSet)

Encodes an input string into an output phonetic representation, given a set of possible origin languages.

Declaration

public virtual string Encode(string input, LanguageSet languageSet)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
string	input	String to phoneticise; a string with dashes or spaces separating each word.
LanguageSet	languageSet

Returns

Type	Description
string	A phonetic representation of the input; a string containing '-'-separated phonetic representations of the input.

Remarks

This is a two-stage process. Firstly, the word is converted into a phonetic representation that takes into account the likely source language. Next, this phonetic representation is converted into a pan-European 'average' representation, allowing comparison between different versions of essentially the same word from different languages.

This class is intentionally immutable and thread-safe. If you wish to alter the settings for a PhoneticEngine, you must make a new one with the updated settings.

Ported from phoneticengine.php

since 1.6