dragon.nlp.tool.lemmatiser

Class VerbOperation

java.lang.Object

dragon.nlp.tool.lemmatiser.VerbOperation

All Implemented Interfaces:

Operation

public class VerbOperation
extends Object
implements Operation

The verb operation removes the suffix such as -s, -es, -ed, -ing

Copyright: Copyright (c) 2005

Company: IST, Drexel University

Version:

1.0

Author:

Davis Zhou

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
VerbOperation(SortedArray verbIndexList)

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.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

VerbOperation

public VerbOperation(SortedArray verbIndexList)

Method Detail

getIndexLookupOption

public boolean getIndexLookupOption()

Description copied from interface: Operation

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.

Specified by:

getIndexLookupOption in interface Operation

Returns:

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

execute

public String execute(String derivation)

Description copied from interface: Operation

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

Specified by:

execute in interface Operation

Parameters:

derivation - the word for lemmatising

Returns:

the lemmatised word