Add simple getSmoothedCount implementation

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/spellchecker/src/CorpusReader.java b/spellchecker/src/CorpusReader.java
index 1392654..536a41b 100644
--- a/spellchecker/src/CorpusReader.java
+++ b/spellchecker/src/CorpusReader.java
@@ -99,6 +99,10 @@ public class CorpusReader {
         return vocabulary.contains(word);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Returns a smoothed value based on the number of occurrences of the n-gram
+     * in the corpus.
+     */
     public double getSmoothedCount(String NGram) {
         if (NGram == null || NGram.length() == 0) {
             throw new IllegalArgumentException("NGram must be non-empty.");
@@ -106,9 +110,9 @@ public class CorpusReader {
 
         double smoothedCount = 0.0;
 
-        /**
-         * ADD CODE HERE *
-         */
+        // simplest smoothing implementation: plus 1.
+        smoothedCount = getNGramCount(NGram) + 1;
+
         return smoothedCount;
     }
 }