Package net.didion.jwnl.data

Classes for extracting and containing data from the dictionary.

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Interface Summary
DatabaseDictionaryElementFactory Factory interface for creating WordNet objects from a database.
DictionaryElement Any class that represents an element contained in the dictionary (IndexWords, Synsets, and Exceptions) must implement this interface.
FileDictionaryElementFactory Factory class for creating DictionaryElements (Synsets, ExceptionIndexWords).
 

Class Summary
Adjective An Adjective is a Word 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 An IndexWord represents a line of the pos.index file.
IndexWordSet A class to simplify the access to a set of IndexWords, 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 A Pointer encodes a lexical or semantic relationship between WordNet entities.
PointerTarget A PointerTarget is the source or target of a Pointer.
PointerType Instances of this class enumerate the possible WordNet pointer types, and are used to label PointerTypes.
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 A Synset, or synonym set, represents a line of a WordNet pos.data file.
SynsetProxy Proxy for a Synset.
Verb A Verb is a subclass of Word that can have 1 or more VerbFrames (use cases of the verb).
VerbFrame A VerbFrame is the frame of a sentence in which it is proper to use a given verb.
Word A Word represents the lexical information related to a specific sense of an IndexWord.
 

Package net.didion.jwnl.data Description

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.