prajna.text

Class Phrase

java.lang.Object

prajna.text.PartOfSpeechTag

prajna.text.Phrase

public class Phrase
extends PartOfSpeechTag

Represents a lexical phrase - a group of one or more words. The phrase is an extension of PartOfSpeechTag, and typically should have a type of NOUN, VERB or PREPOSITION to indicate which phrase type the word sequence represents.

Author:

Edward Swing

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
Phrase(java.lang.String text, PartOfSpeech pos) Create a Phrase
Phrase(java.lang.String text, PartOfSpeech pos, java.lang.String phraseObject) Create a Phrase

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
java.lang.String	getPhraseObject() Get the object of the phrase

Methods inherited from class prajna.text.PartOfSpeechTag

getPartOfSpeech, getSense, getTag, getWord, setSense, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Phrase

public Phrase(java.lang.String text,
      PartOfSpeech pos)

Create a Phrase

Parameters:

text - the text of the phrase

pos - the type of phrase. Typically NOUN, VERB, or PREPOSITION

Phrase

public Phrase(java.lang.String text,
      PartOfSpeech pos,
      java.lang.String phraseObject)

Create a Phrase

Parameters:

text - the text of the phrase

pos - the type of phrase. Typically NOUN, VERB, or PREPOSITION

phraseObject - the object of the phrase.

Method Detail

getPhraseObject

public java.lang.String getPhraseObject()

Get the object of the phrase

Returns:

the object of the phrase