Package net.didion.jwnl.data


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.

  • Class
    Description
    An Adjective is a Word that can have an adjective position.
    Adjective positions denote a restriction on the on the syntactic position the adjective may have in relation to noun that it modifies.
    Factory interface for creating WordNet objects from a database.
    Any class that represents an element contained in the dictionary (IndexWords, Synsets, and Exceptions) must implement this interface.
    WordNet contains different file types, index, synset data, and exception files.
    Represents an entry in an exception file.
    Factory class for creating DictionaryElements (Synsets, Exceptioninvalid input: '<'/codes, and IndexWords).
    An IndexWord represents a line of the pos.index file.
    A class to simplify the access to a set of IndexWords, each containing one part of speech of the same word.
    LexFileIdMap maps the names of the lexiographer files to the identifiers found in the data.pos files.
    A Pointer encodes a lexical or semantic relationship between WordNet entities.
    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.
    A PointerTarget is the source or target of a Pointer.
    Instances of this class enumerate the possible WordNet pointer types, and are used to label PointerTypes.
    This class constains static methods for performing various pointer operations.
    Instances of this class enumerate the possible major syntactic categories, or Part's Of Speech.
    A Synset, or synonym set, represents a line of a WordNet pos.data file.
    Proxy for a Synset.
    A Verb is a subclass of Word that can have 1 or more VerbFrames (use cases of the verb).
    A VerbFrame is the frame of a sentence in which it is proper to use a given verb.
    A Word represents the lexical information related to a specific sense of an IndexWord.