it.unitn.disi.smatch.oracles
Interface ILinguisticOracle

All Superinterfaces:

IConfigurable

All Known Implementing Classes:

WordNet

public interface ILinguisticOracle
extends IConfigurable

Interface to Linguistic Oracles, such as WordNet.

Author:

Mikalai Yatskevich mikalai.yatskevich@comlab.ox.ac.uk, Aliaksandr Autayeu

Method Summary

java.lang.String	getBaseForm(java.lang.String derivation) Returns base form (lemma) of a word.
ISynset	getISynset(ISense sense) Returns a synset given its id.
java.util.List<ISense>	getSenses(java.lang.String word) Returns all senses of a word.
boolean	isEqual(java.lang.String str1, java.lang.String str2) Checks if lemmas of two strings are equal (e.

Methods inherited from interface it.unitn.disi.smatch.components.IConfigurable

getProperties, setProperties, setProperties

Method Detail

getISynset

ISynset getISynset(ISense sense)
                   throws LinguisticOracleException

Returns a synset given its id.

Parameters:

sense - sense

Returns:

synset

Throws:

LinguisticOracleException - LinguisticOracleException

isEqual

boolean isEqual(java.lang.String str1,
                java.lang.String str2)
                throws LinguisticOracleException

Checks if lemmas of two strings are equal (e. g. the string are the same modulo inflections).

Parameters:

str1 - source string

str2 - target string

Returns:

true if lemmas are equal

Throws:

LinguisticOracleException - LinguisticOracleException

getSenses

java.util.List<ISense> getSenses(java.lang.String word)
                                 throws LinguisticOracleException

Returns all senses of a word.

Parameters:

word - the word to which the sense will be retrieve

Returns:

word senses

Throws:

LinguisticOracleException - LinguisticOracleException

getBaseForm

java.lang.String getBaseForm(java.lang.String derivation)
                             throws LinguisticOracleException

Returns base form (lemma) of a word.

Parameters:

derivation - the word to get a base form for

Returns:

base form of a derivation

Throws:

LinguisticOracleException - LinguisticOracleException