class NameQuery
expiremental class - use (just) Name or NameQ or NameVariant or NameAnalyzer/Query or similar - why? why not?
let's wait for now with usage - let's add more methods as we go along and find more - why? why not?
Constants
- DE_UNACCENTER
- EN_UNACCENTER
Public Class Methods
new( name )
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# File lib/alphabets/variants.rb, line 37 def initialize( name ) @name = name end
Public Instance Methods
frequency_table()
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# File lib/alphabets/variants.rb, line 41 def frequency_table @freq ||= Alphabet.frequency_table( @name ) end
variants()
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# File lib/alphabets/variants.rb, line 45 def variants @variants ||= find_variants end
Private Instance Methods
find_variants()
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# File lib/alphabets/variants.rb, line 53 def find_variants alt_names = [] freq = frequency_table en = EN_UNACCENTER if en.count( freq ) > 0 # check if includes äöü (that is, character with accents or diacritics) etc. alt_names << en.unaccent( @name ) end de = DE_UNACCENTER if de.count( freq ) > 0 alt_names << de.unaccent( @name ) end ## todo - make uniq e.g. Preußen is Preussen, Preussen 2x alt_names = alt_names.uniq alt_names end