/** Generate a sentence that includes (if possible) the specified word. */ public String getSentence(String word) { LinkedList parts = new LinkedList(); Quad[] quads; if (words.containsKey(word)) { quads = (Quad[]) ((HashSet) words.get(word)).toArray(new Quad[0]); } else { quads = (Quad[]) this.quads.keySet().toArray(new Quad[0]); } if (quads.length == 0) { return ""; } Quad middleQuad = quads[rand.nextInt(quads.length)]; Quad quad = middleQuad; for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) { parts.add(quad.getToken(i)); } while (quad.canEnd() == false) { String[] nextTokens = (String[]) ((HashSet) next.get(quad)).toArray(new String[0]); String nextToken = nextTokens[rand.nextInt(nextTokens.length)]; quad = (Quad) this.quads.get( new Quad(quad.getToken(1), quad.getToken(2), quad.getToken(3), nextToken)); parts.add(nextToken); } quad = middleQuad; while (quad.canStart() == false) { String[] previousTokens = (String[]) ((HashSet) previous.get(quad)).toArray(new String[0]); String previousToken = previousTokens[rand.nextInt(previousTokens.length)]; quad = (Quad) this.quads.get( new Quad(previousToken, quad.getToken(0), quad.getToken(1), quad.getToken(2))); parts.addFirst(previousToken); } StringBuffer sentence = new StringBuffer(); Iterator it = parts.iterator(); while (it.hasNext()) { String token = (String) it.next(); sentence.append(token); } return sentence.toString(); }