dragon.nlp.ontology.umls

Class UmlsDBOntology

java.lang.Object

dragon.nlp.ontology.AbstractOntology

dragon.nlp.ontology.umls.UmlsOntology

dragon.nlp.ontology.umls.UmlsExactOntology

dragon.nlp.ontology.umls.UmlsDBOntology

All Implemented Interfaces:

Ontology

public class UmlsDBOntology
extends UmlsExactOntology
implements Ontology

UMLS Ontology has functions of reading ontology from database

Copyright: Copyright (c) 2003

Company: IST, Drexel University

Version:

1.0

Author:

Davis Zhou

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
UmlsDBOntology(Connection con, Lemmatiser lemmatiser)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	closeConnection()
Connection	getConnection()
String[]	getCUI(String term) Gets all possible concept ids the specified term has
SemanticNet	getSemanticNet() Gets the semantic network of the ontology
String[]	getSemanticType(String cui) Gets all possible semantic types of the given concept
String[]	getSemanticType(String[] cuis) Gets all possible semantic types of the given concepts
boolean	isTerm(String term) Tests if the given term is defined in the ontology.

Methods inherited from class dragon.nlp.ontology.umls.UmlsExactOntology

buildNormalizedTerm, findAllTerms, findAllTerms, findTerm, findTerm, getCUI, isTerm

Methods inherited from class dragon.nlp.ontology.AbstractOntology

buildString, getAdjectiveTermOption, getCoordinateOption, getLemma, getLemmaOption, getNonBoundaryPunctuation, getNPPOption, getSenseDisambiguationOption, getSimilarityMetric, isBoundaryWord, isStartingWord, isUsefulForTerm, setAdjectiveTermOption, setCoordinateOption, setLemmaOption, setNonBoundaryPunctuation, setNPPOption, setSenseDisambiguationOption

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface dragon.nlp.ontology.Ontology

findAllTerms, findAllTerms, findTerm, findTerm, getAdjectiveTermOption, getCoordinateOption, getCUI, getLemmaOption, getNPPOption, getSenseDisambiguationOption, getSimilarityMetric, isStartingWord, isTerm, setAdjectiveTermOption, setCoordinateOption, setLemmaOption, setNPPOption, setSenseDisambiguationOption

Constructor Detail

UmlsDBOntology

public UmlsDBOntology(Connection con,
                      Lemmatiser lemmatiser)

Method Detail

getConnection

public Connection getConnection()

closeConnection

public void closeConnection()

getSemanticNet

public SemanticNet getSemanticNet()

Description copied from interface: Ontology

Gets the semantic network of the ontology

Specified by:

getSemanticNet in interface Ontology

Overrides:

getSemanticNet in class AbstractOntology

Returns:

the semantic network

getSemanticType

public String[] getSemanticType(String[] cuis)

Description copied from interface: Ontology

Gets all possible semantic types of the given concepts

Specified by:

getSemanticType in interface Ontology

Overrides:

getSemanticType in class UmlsExactOntology

Parameters:

cuis - the set of concepts

Returns:

all possible semantic types of the given concepts

getSemanticType

public String[] getSemanticType(String cui)

Description copied from interface: Ontology

Gets all possible semantic types of the given concept

Specified by:

getSemanticType in interface Ontology

Specified by:

getSemanticType in class UmlsExactOntology

Parameters:

cui - the concept id

Returns:

all possible semantic types of the given concept.

getCUI

public String[] getCUI(String term)

Description copied from interface: Ontology

Gets all possible concept ids the specified term has

Specified by:

getCUI in interface Ontology

Specified by:

getCUI in class UmlsExactOntology

Parameters:

term - the term for testing

Returns:

all possible concept ids if the specified term exists in the ontology, otherwise null

isTerm

public boolean isTerm(String term)

Description copied from interface: Ontology

Tests if the given term is defined in the ontology.

Specified by:

isTerm in interface Ontology

Specified by:

isTerm in class UmlsExactOntology

Parameters:

term - the term for testing

Returns:

true if the given term is defined in the ontology.