dragon.nlp.tool

Class WordNetDidion

java.lang.Object

dragon.nlp.tool.WordNetDidion

All Implemented Interfaces:

Lemmatiser, WordNetUtil

public class WordNetDidion
extends Object
implements Lemmatiser, WordNetUtil

A Java-implementation of WordNet provided by Didion

Copyright: Copyright (c) 2005

Company: IST, Drexel University

Version:

1.0

Author:

Davis Zhou

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface dragon.nlp.tool.Lemmatiser

FIRSTPOS, LASTPOS

Fields inherited from interface dragon.nlp.tool.WordNetUtil

FIRSTPOS, LASTPOS, POS_ADJECTIVE, POS_ADVERB, POS_NOUN, POS_VERB

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
WordNetDidion()
WordNetDidion(String workDir)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
net.didion.jwnl.dictionary.Dictionary	getDictionary()
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.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

WordNetDidion

public WordNetDidion(String workDir)

WordNetDidion

public WordNetDidion()

Method Detail

getDictionary

public net.didion.jwnl.dictionary.Dictionary getDictionary()

lemmatize

public String lemmatize(String word)

Description copied from interface: Lemmatiser

Gets the base form of the word.

Specified by:

lemmatize in interface Lemmatiser

Specified by:

lemmatize in interface WordNetUtil

Parameters:

word - the word for lemmatising

Returns:

the base form

lemmatize

public String lemmatize(String word,
                        int pos)

Description copied from interface: Lemmatiser

Gets the base form of the word

Specified by:

lemmatize in interface Lemmatiser

Specified by:

lemmatize in interface WordNetUtil

Parameters:

word - the word for lemmatising

pos - the part of speech of the word

Returns:

the base form

stem

public String stem(String word)

Description copied from interface: Lemmatiser

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

Specified by:

stem in interface Lemmatiser

Parameters:

word - the word for processing

Returns:

the stem of a word