ch.uzh.ifi.attempto.preditor.text
Interface TextElement

All Known Subinterfaces:

OntologyTextElement, RefableTextElement

All Known Implementing Classes:

BasicTextElement, NounTextElement, RefTextElement, VarTextElement

public interface TextElement

This interface describes a text element (a word or phrase) that is used by the predictive editor. Every text element contains a text and a grammatical category.

Author:

Tobias Kuhn

Method Summary

void	checkNeighborTextElements(TextElement precedingTextElement, TextElement nextTextElement) Checks the preceding and next text element.
boolean	equals(java.lang.Object obj)
java.lang.String	getCategory() Returns the grammatical category of this text element.
java.lang.String	getText() Returns the text of this text element.

Method Detail

getText

java.lang.String getText()

Returns the text of this text element.

Returns:

The text.

getCategory

java.lang.String getCategory()

Returns the grammatical category of this text element.

Returns:

The grammatical category.

checkNeighborTextElements

void checkNeighborTextElements(TextElement precedingTextElement,
                               TextElement nextTextElement)

Checks the preceding and next text element. This is needed for words that change their form depending on the context, e.g. for capitalization or for the indefinite article "a"/"an".

Parameters:

precedingTextElement -

equals

boolean equals(java.lang.Object obj)

Overrides:

equals in class java.lang.Object