ch.uzh.ifi.attempto.acewiki.aceowl
Class ACEOWLEngine

java.lang.Object
  ch.uzh.ifi.attempto.acewiki.core.AbstractAceWikiEngine
      ch.uzh.ifi.attempto.acewiki.core.MonolingualEngine
          ch.uzh.ifi.attempto.acewiki.aceowl.ACEOWLEngine

All Implemented Interfaces:

AceWikiEngine

public class ACEOWLEngine
extends MonolingualEngine

This is the AceWiki language engine for ACE/OWL. It delivers the grammar, the lexicon, the language factory, the reasoner, and more.

Author:

Tobias Kuhn

Constructor Summary

ACEOWLEngine()
Creates a new language engine for ACE/OWL.

Method Summary

Sentence	createAssignmentSentence(Individual ind, Concept concept) Creates a new assignement sentence that assigns a given individual to a given concept.
Sentence	createHierarchySentence(Concept subConcept, Concept superConcept) Creates a new hierarchy sentence that states that a certain concept is a sub-concept of another concept.
OntologyElement	createOntologyElement(java.lang.String type) Creates a new ontology element for the given lexical type.
Sentence	createSentence(java.lang.String serialized) Creates a new sentence object based on the given serialization.
LanguageHandler	getLanguageHandler() Returns the language handler.
AceWikiReasoner	getReasoner() Returns the reasoner.

Methods inherited from class ch.uzh.ifi.attempto.acewiki.core.MonolingualEngine

getLanguageHandler, getLanguages

Methods inherited from class ch.uzh.ifi.attempto.acewiki.core.AbstractAceWikiEngine

addExporter, getExporters, getLexicalTypes, getWordIndex, init, setLexicalTypes

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

ACEOWLEngine

public ACEOWLEngine()

Creates a new language engine for ACE/OWL.

Method Detail

getLanguageHandler

public LanguageHandler getLanguageHandler()

Description copied from class: MonolingualEngine

Returns the language handler.

Specified by:

getLanguageHandler in class MonolingualEngine

Returns:

The language handler.

getReasoner

public AceWikiReasoner getReasoner()

Description copied from interface: AceWikiEngine

Returns the reasoner.

Returns:

The reasoner.

createOntologyElement

public OntologyElement createOntologyElement(java.lang.String type)

Description copied from interface: AceWikiEngine

Creates a new ontology element for the given lexical type.

Parameters:

type - The lexical type.

Returns:

A new ontology element.

createSentence

public Sentence createSentence(java.lang.String serialized)

Description copied from interface: AceWikiEngine

Creates a new sentence object based on the given serialization.

Parameters:

serialized - The serialized representation of the sentence.

Returns:

A new sentence object.

createAssignmentSentence

public Sentence createAssignmentSentence(Individual ind,
                                         Concept concept)

Description copied from interface: AceWikiEngine

Creates a new assignement sentence that assigns a given individual to a given concept.

Parameters:

ind - The individual.

concept - The concept.

Returns:

A new sentence representing the assignment.

createHierarchySentence

public Sentence createHierarchySentence(Concept subConcept,
                                        Concept superConcept)

Description copied from interface: AceWikiEngine

Creates a new hierarchy sentence that states that a certain concept is a sub-concept of another concept.

Parameters:

subConcept - The sub-concept.

superConcept - The super-concept.

Returns:

A new sentence representing the assignment.