dictionary.java

自然语言处理领域的一个开发包

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//Copyright (C) 2003 Thomas Morton
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package opennlp.tools.coref.mention;

/** Interface to provide dictionary information to the coreference modulue assuming a
 * heirarachly structured dictionary (such as WordNet) is avaliable. 
 */ 
public interface Dictionary {
  
  /** 
   * Returns the lemmas of the specified word with the specified part-of-speech.  
   * @param word The word whose lemmas are desired.
   * @param pos The part-of-speech of the specified word.
   * @return The lemmas of the specified word given the specified part-of-speech.
   */
  public String[] getLemmas(String word, String pos);
  
  /**
   * Returns a key indicating the specified sense number of the specified 
   * lemma with the specified part-of-speech.  
   * @param lemma The lemmas for which the key is desired.
   * @param pos The pos for which the key is desired.
   * @param senseNumber The sense number for which the key is desired.
   * @return a key indicating the specified sense number of the specified 
   * lemma with the specified part-of-speech.
   */
 public  String getSenseKey(String lemma, String pos, int senseNumber);
  
  /**
   * Returns the number of senses in the dictionry for the specified lemma.
   * @param lemma A lemmatized form of the word to look up.
   * @param pos The part-of-sppech for the lemma.
   * @return the number of senses in the dictionry for the specified lemma.
   */
  public int getNumSenses(String lemma, String pos);
  
  /**
   * Returns an array of keys for each parent of the specified sense nuber of the specified lemma with the specified part-of-speech.
   * @param lemma A lemmatized form of the word to look up.
   * @param pos The part-of-sppech for the lemma.
   * @param senseNumber The sense number for which the parent keys are desired.
   * @return an array of keys for each parent of the specified sense nuber of the specified lemma with the specified part-of-speech.
   */
  public String[] getParentSenseKeys(String lemma, String pos, int senseNumber);
}