dragon.nlp.tool

Interface Lemmatiser

All Known Implementing Classes:

EngLemmatiser, PorterStemmer, WordNetDidion

public interface Lemmatiser

Interface of lemmtaiser which gets the base form of a word

Copyright: Copyright (c) 2005

Company: IST, Drexel University

Version:

1.0

Author:

Davis Zhou

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static int	FIRSTPOS
static int	LASTPOS

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	lemmatize(String word) Gets the base form of the word.
String	lemmatize(String word, int POS) Gets the base form of the word
String	stem(String word) Gets the stem of the word.

Field Detail

FIRSTPOS

static final int FIRSTPOS

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Constant Field Values

LASTPOS

static final int LASTPOS

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Constant Field Values

Method Detail

lemmatize

String lemmatize(String word)

Gets the base form of the word.

Parameters:

word - the word for lemmatising

Returns:

the base form

lemmatize

String lemmatize(String word,
                 int POS)

Gets the base form of the word

Parameters:

word - the word for lemmatising

POS - the part of speech of the word

Returns:

the base form

stem

String stem(String word)

Gets the stem of the word. The result of stemming may be different from that of lemmasting. It is up to the implementations.

Parameters:

word - the word for processing

Returns:

the stem of a word