net.didion.jwnl.data
Interface FileDictionaryElementFactory

All Superinterfaces:

Createable

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractPrincetonFileDictionaryElementFactory

public interface FileDictionaryElementFactory

extends Createable

Factory class for creating DictionaryElements (Synsets, ExceptionIndexWords). 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

Exc	createExc(POS pos, java.lang.String line) Create an Exc from a line in an exception file.
IndexWord	createIndexWord(POS pos, java.lang.String line) Create an IndexWord from a line in an index file.
Synset	createSynset(POS pos, java.lang.String line) Create a Synset from a line in a data file

Methods inherited from interface net.didion.jwnl.util.factory.Createable

create

Method Detail

createExc

public Exc createExc(POS pos,
                     java.lang.String line)

Create an Exc from a line in an exception file.

createSynset

public Synset createSynset(POS pos,
                           java.lang.String line)

Create a Synset from a line in a data file

createIndexWord

public IndexWord createIndexWord(POS pos,
                                 java.lang.String line)

Create an IndexWord from a line in an index file.