net.didion.jwnl.data
Class Word

java.lang.Object
  net.didion.jwnl.data.PointerTarget
      net.didion.jwnl.data.Word

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable

Direct Known Subclasses:

Adjective, Verb

public class Word

extends PointerTarget

A Word represents the lexical information related to a specific sense of an IndexWord. Word's are linked by Pointers into a network of lexically related words. getTargets retrieves the targets of these links, and getPointers retrieves the pointers themselves.

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

Word(Synset synset, int index, java.lang.String lemma)

Method Summary

boolean	equals(java.lang.Object object) Two words are equal if their parent Synsets are equal and they have the same index
int	getIndex()
java.lang.String	getLemma()
Pointer[]	getPointers() returns all the pointers of the synset that contains this word whose source is this word
POS	getPOS() Return this target's POS
Synset	getSynset()
int	hashCode()
java.lang.String	toString()

Methods inherited from class net.didion.jwnl.data.PointerTarget

getPointers, getTargets, getTargets

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Word

public Word(Synset synset,
            int index,
            java.lang.String lemma)

Method Detail

equals

public boolean equals(java.lang.Object object)

Two words are equal if their parent Synsets are equal and they have the same index

Overrides:

equals in class PointerTarget

hashCode

public int hashCode()

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Specified by:

toString in class PointerTarget

getSynset

public Synset getSynset()

getPOS

public POS getPOS()

Description copied from class: PointerTarget

Return this target's POS

Specified by:

getPOS in class PointerTarget

getIndex

public int getIndex()

getLemma

public java.lang.String getLemma()

getPointers

public Pointer[] getPointers()

returns all the pointers of the synset that contains this word whose source is this word

Specified by:

getPointers in class PointerTarget