it.uniroma2.info.ai_nlp.LinguisticWatermark
Class LinguisticInterface

java.lang.Object
  it.uniroma2.info.ai_nlp.LinguisticWatermark.LinguisticInterface

Direct Known Subclasses:

BilingualLinguisticInterface

public abstract class LinguisticInterface
extends Object

this is the main class which must be implemented to create a wrapper for a given (category of) linguistic resource

Author:

Armando Stellato

Field Summary

protected String[]	ConceptualRelations a set of Semantic Relations between word senses of the linguistic resources
protected String	language the natural language in which the resource is expressed, if the resource is a bilingual dictionary it represents the target language of the translation
protected String[]	LexicalRelations a set of Lexical Relations or search strategies for querying the linguistic resource
protected boolean	matchCaseSearchStatus tells if searches on the linguistic resource will take into account the case of the word(s) given as input
protected String	shortID a sort of very short ID used to identify the resource
protected boolean	wholeWordSearchStatus tells if searches on the linguistic resource will return only exact matches of the word(s) given as input

Constructor Summary

LinguisticInterface()

Method Summary

Collection	exploreConceptualRelation(String Relation, Concept c)
Collection	exploreLexicalRelation(String Relation, String words)
String[]	getConceptualRelationsList()
String	getLanguage()
String[]	getLexicalRelationsList()
boolean	getMatchCaseSearchStatus()
String	getResourceShortId()
boolean	getWholeWordSearchStatus()
boolean	hasConceptPrefixSearch()
boolean	hasGlosses()
abstract void	initialize() this method initializes the resource, loading its database and specifying some of its properties (language, shortID etc...)
boolean	isBilingual()
boolean	isConceptualized()
boolean	isFlat()
boolean	isSelectableOperationMatchCaseToggling()
boolean	isSelectableOperationWholeWordToggling()
boolean	isTaxonomical()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

ConceptualRelations

protected String[] ConceptualRelations

a set of Semantic Relations between word senses of the linguistic resources

LexicalRelations

protected String[] LexicalRelations

a set of Lexical Relations or search strategies for querying the linguistic resource

wholeWordSearchStatus

protected boolean wholeWordSearchStatus

tells if searches on the linguistic resource will return only exact matches of the word(s) given as input

matchCaseSearchStatus

protected boolean matchCaseSearchStatus

tells if searches on the linguistic resource will take into account the case of the word(s) given as input

language

protected String language

the natural language in which the resource is expressed, if the resource is a bilingual dictionary it represents the target language of the translation

shortID

protected String shortID

a sort of very short ID used to identify the resource

Constructor Detail

LinguisticInterface

public LinguisticInterface()

Method Detail

initialize

public abstract void initialize()

this method initializes the resource, loading its database and specifying some of its properties (language, shortID etc...)

exploreConceptualRelation

public Collection exploreConceptualRelation(String Relation,
                                            Concept c)
                                     throws Exception

Parameters:

Relation - a semantic relation between senses of linguistic expressions inside the linguistic resource

c - a sense related to one or more linguistic expressions

Returns:

a set of results, depending on the nature of the linguistic resource (usually concepts).

Throws:

Exception

exploreLexicalRelation

public Collection exploreLexicalRelation(String Relation,
                                         String words)
                                  throws Exception

Parameters:

Relation - a lexical relation between words or words and their senses, this may include search strategies to be applied upon a given search key

words - a word or linguistic expression used as a key for searching the linguistic resource

Returns:

a set of results, depending on the nature of the linguistic resource (usually Concepts for conceptualizedLR resources and lemmas for flatLR ones).

Throws:

Exception

getConceptualRelationsList

public String[] getConceptualRelationsList()

Returns:

the list of semantic relations which are available for the wrapped linguistic resource

getLexicalRelationsList

public String[] getLexicalRelationsList()

Returns:

the list of lexical relations which are available for the wrapped linguistic resource

getLanguage

public String getLanguage()

Returns:

the value assigned to the language field of this interface

getResourceShortId

public String getResourceShortId()

Returns:

the value assigned to the shortID field of this interface

isConceptualized

public boolean isConceptualized()

Returns:

true if the interface to the linguistic resource implements the ConceptualizedLR interface

hasConceptPrefixSearch

public boolean hasConceptPrefixSearch()

isTaxonomical

public boolean isTaxonomical()

Returns:

true if the interface to the linguistic resource implements the TaxonomicalLR interface

hasGlosses

public boolean hasGlosses()

Returns:

true if the interface to the linguistic resource implements the LRWithGlosses interface

isFlat

public boolean isFlat()

Returns:

true if the interface to the linguistic resource implements the FlatLR interface

isBilingual

public boolean isBilingual()

Returns:

true if the interface to the linguistic resource is a subclass of BilingualLinguisticInterface

isSelectableOperationMatchCaseToggling

public boolean isSelectableOperationMatchCaseToggling()

Returns:

true if this interface allows for switching between exact and non exact match when searching the resource for given word(s) i.e. if the interface to the linguistic resource implements the MatchCaseToggling interface

isSelectableOperationWholeWordToggling

public boolean isSelectableOperationWholeWordToggling()

Returns:

true if this interface allows for switching between case sensitive and case insensitive match when searching the resource for given word(s) i.e. if the interface to the linguistic resource implements the WholeWordToggling interface

getWholeWordSearchStatus

public boolean getWholeWordSearchStatus()

Returns:

the value assigned to the wholeWordSearchStatus field of this interface

getMatchCaseSearchStatus

public boolean getMatchCaseSearchStatus()

Returns:

the value assigned to the matchCaseSearchStatus field of this interface