dragon.nlp.tool.lemmatiser

Interface Operation

All Known Implementing Classes:

ExceptionOperation, SuffixDetachOperation, SuffixEDetachOperation, VerbOperation

public interface Operation

Interface of lemmatising operations

Copyright: Copyright (c) 2005

Company: IST, Drexel University

Version:

1.0

Author:

Davis Zhou

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	execute(String derivation) Executes the operation to get the base form of the given word
boolean	getIndexLookupOption() Gets the option of checking the existence of the lemmatised word in the dictionary.

Method Detail

execute

String execute(String derivation)

Executes the operation to get the base form of the given word

Parameters:

derivation - the word for lemmatising

Returns:

the lemmatised word

getIndexLookupOption

boolean getIndexLookupOption()

Gets the option of checking the existence of the lemmatised word in the dictionary. If this option is enabled and the lemmatised word does not exist, the execute method will return the input word.

Returns:

true if it is required to check the existence of the lemmatised word in the dictionary.