Interface FileDictionaryElementFactory

All Superinterfaces:

Createable

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractPrincetonFileDictionaryElementFactory, PrincetonWN16FileDictionaryElementFactory, PrincetonWN17FileDictionaryElementFactory

public interface FileDictionaryElementFactory
extends Createable

Factory class for creating DictionaryElements (Synsets, Exceptioninvalid input: '<'/codes, and IndexWords). Using a factory class rather than individual parsing methods in each class facilitates using multiple versions of WordNet, or using a propritary data format.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Exc	createExc(POS pos, String line)	Create an Exc from a line in an exception file.
IndexWord	createIndexWord(POS pos, String line)	Creates an IndexWord from a line in an index file.
Synset	createSynset(POS pos, String line)	Creates a synset from a line in a data file.

Methods inherited from interface Createable

create

Method Details

createExc

Exc createExc(POS pos,
 String line)

Create an Exc from a line in an exception file.

Parameters:

pos - - the part of speech

line - - unparsed line

Returns:

exception

createSynset

Synset createSynset(POS pos,
 String line)

Creates a synset from a line in a data file.

Parameters:

pos - - the part of speech

line - - unparsed line

Returns:

synset

createIndexWord

IndexWord createIndexWord(POS pos,
 String line)

Creates an IndexWord from a line in an index file.

Parameters:

pos - - the part of speech

line - - unparsed line

Returns:

indexword