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.

Related Packages

Package	Description
net.didion.jwnl
net.didion.jwnl.data.list	Lists and associated classes that hold the results of relationship operations.
net.didion.jwnl.data.relationship	Tools for finding pointer relationships between words.
net.didion.jwnl.dictionary	Classes for acessing dictionary information.
net.didion.jwnl.util	Utility classes used by JWNL.
net.didion.jwnl.utilities

Class	Description
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.
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.
DictionaryElementType	WordNet contains different file types, index, synset data, and exception files.
Exc	Represents an entry in an exception file.
FileDictionaryElementFactory	Factory class for creating DictionaryElements (Synsets, Exceptioninvalid input: '<'/codes, and IndexWords).
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.
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	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.