Package net.didion.jwnl.data
Classes for extracting and containing data from the dictionary.
The main objects are IndexWord
, Synset
, and Exc
. These generally have a 1 to 1 correspondence with the different types of dictionary file.
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Interface Summary Interface Description DatabaseDictionaryElementFactory Factory interface for creating WordNet objects from a database.DictionaryElement Any class that represents an element contained in the dictionary (IndexWord
s,Synset
s, andExc
eptions) must implement this interface.FileDictionaryElementFactory Factory class for creatingDictionaryElement
s (Synset
s,ExceptionIndexWord
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Class Summary Class Description Adjective AnAdjective
is aWord
that can have an adjective position.Adjective.AdjectivePosition Adjective positions denote a restriction on the on the syntactic position the adjective may have in relation to noun that it modifies.DictionaryElementType WordNet contains different file types, index, synset data, and exception files.Exc Represents an entry in an exception file.IndexWord AnIndexWord
represents a line of the pos.index
file.IndexWordSet A class to simplify the access to a set ofIndexWord
s, each containing one part of speech of the same word.LexFileIdMap LexFileIdMap maps the names of the lexiographer files to the identifiers found in the data.pos files.Pointer APointer
encodes a lexical or semantic relationship between WordNet entities.Pointer.TargetIndex This class is used to avoid paging in the target before it is required, and to prevent keeping a large portion of the database resident once the target has been queried.PointerTarget APointerTarget
is the source or target of aPointer
.PointerType Instances of this class enumerate the possible WordNet pointer types, and are used to labelPointerType
s.PointerUtils This class constains static methods for performing various pointer operations.POS Instances of this class enumerate the possible major syntactic categories, or Part's Of Speech.Synset ASynset
, or synonym set, represents a line of a WordNet pos.data
file.SynsetProxy Proxy for aSynset
.Verb AVerb
is a subclass ofWord
that can have 1 or moreVerbFrame
s (use cases of the verb).VerbFrame AVerbFrame
is the frame of a sentence in which it is proper to use a given verb.Word AWord
represents the lexical information related to a specific sense of anIndexWord
.