net.didion.jwnl.dictionary

Interface MorphologicalProcessor

All Superinterfaces:

Createable

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultMorphologicalProcessor

public interface MorphologicalProcessor
extends Createable

A MorphologicalProcessor tries to turn the inflected form of a word or phrase into the form that can be found in WordNet. For example, if one calls lookupBaseForm(POS.VERB, "running"), the index word for "run" should be returned.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
List	lookupAllBaseForms(POS pos, String derivation) Return all the base forms of derivation
IndexWord	lookupBaseForm(POS pos, String derivation) Try to turn derivation into a word that is found in the index file for pos.

Methods inherited from interface net.didion.jwnl.util.factory.Createable

create

Method Detail

lookupBaseForm

IndexWord lookupBaseForm(POS pos,
                         String derivation)
                  throws JWNLException

Try to turn derivation into a word that is found in the index file for pos. If there is more than one possible base form, then the frist call to this method should return the first base form found. The return value for subsequent calls is undefined (it could be the same base form, or the next base form - it is up to the implementer to decide, but the decision should be noted.

Throws:

JWNLException

lookupAllBaseForms

List lookupAllBaseForms(POS pos,
                        String derivation)
                 throws JWNLException

Return all the base forms of derivation

Throws:

JWNLException