Interface MorphologicalProcessor

All Superinterfaces:
Createable
All Known Implementing Classes:
DefaultMorphologicalProcessor
public interface MorphologicalProcessor extends Createable
A MorphologicalProcessor tries to turn the inflected form of a word or phrase into the form that can be found in WordNet. For example, if one calls lookupBaseForm(POS.VERB, "running"), the index word for "run" should be returned.

  • Method Details

    • lookupBaseForm

      IndexWord lookupBaseForm(POS pos, String derivation) throws JWNLException
      Try to turn derivation into a word that is found in the index file for pos. If there is more than one possible base form, then the frist call to this method should return the first base form found. The return value for subsequent calls is undefined (it could be the same base form, or the next base form - it is up to the implementer to decide, but the decision should be noted.
      Throws:
      JWNLException

    • lookupAllBaseForms

      List lookupAllBaseForms(POS pos, String derivation) throws JWNLException
      Return all the base forms of derivation
      Throws:
      JWNLException