TextDirectoryToArff.java

import java.io.*;
import weka.core.*;
 
/**
 * Builds an arff dataset from the documents in a given directory.
 * Assumes that the file names for the documents end with ".txt".
 *
 * Usage:<p/>
 *
 * TextDirectoryToArff <directory path> <p/>
 *
 * @author Richard Kirkby (rkirkby at cs.waikato.ac.nz)
 * @version 1.0
 */
public class TextDirectoryToArff {
 
  public Instances createDataset(String directoryPath) throws Exception {
 
    FastVector atts = new FastVector(2);
    atts.addElement(new Attribute("filename", (FastVector) null));
    atts.addElement(new Attribute("contents", (FastVector) null));
    Instances data = new Instances("text_files_in_" + directoryPath, atts, 0);
 
    File dir = new File(directoryPath);
    String[] files = dir.list();
    for (int i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
      if (files[i].endsWith(".txt")) {
    try {
      double[] newInst = new double[2];
      newInst[0] = (double)data.attribute(0).addStringValue(files[i]);
      File txt = new File(directoryPath + File.separator + files[i]);
      InputStreamReader is;
      is = new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(txt));
      StringBuffer txtStr = new StringBuffer();
      int c;
      while ((c = is.read()) != -1) {
        txtStr.append((char)c);
      }
      newInst[1] = (double)data.attribute(1).addStringValue(txtStr.toString());
      data.add(new Instance(1.0, newInst));
    } catch (Exception e) {
      //System.err.println("failed to convert file: " + directoryPath + File.separator + files[i]);
    }
      }
    }
    return data;
  }
 
  public static void main(String[] args) {
 
    if (args.length == 1) {
      TextDirectoryToArff tdta = new TextDirectoryToArff();
      try {
    Instances dataset = tdta.createDataset(args[0]);
    System.out.println(dataset);
      } catch (Exception e) {
    System.err.println(e.getMessage());
    e.printStackTrace();
      }
    } else {
      System.out.println("Usage: java TextDirectoryToArff <directory name>");
    }
  }
}