edu.brandeis.cs.steele.wn
Class POS

java.lang.Object
  edu.brandeis.cs.steele.wn.POS

public class POS
extends java.lang.Object

Instances of this class enumerate the possible major syntactic categories, or part's of speech. Each POS has a human-readable label that can be used to print it, and a key by which it can be looked up.

Author:

Oliver Steele, steele@cs.brandeis.edu

Field Summary

static POS	ADJ
static POS	ADV
static POS[]	CATS A list of all POSs.
protected java.lang.String	key
protected java.lang.String	label
static POS	NOUN
static POS	VERB

Constructor Summary

protected

POS(java.lang.String label, java.lang.String key)

Method Summary

boolean	equals(java.lang.Object object)
java.lang.String	getLabel() Return a label intended for textual presentation.
int	hashCode()
static POS	lookup(java.lang.String key) Return the PointerType whose key matches key.
java.lang.String	toString()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

NOUN

public static final POS NOUN

VERB

public static final POS VERB

ADJ

public static final POS ADJ

ADV

public static final POS ADV

CATS

public static final POS[] CATS

A list of all POSs.

label

protected java.lang.String label

key

protected java.lang.String key

Constructor Detail

POS

protected POS(java.lang.String label,
              java.lang.String key)

Method Detail

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object

equals

public boolean equals(java.lang.Object object)

Overrides:

equals in class java.lang.Object

hashCode

public int hashCode()

Overrides:

hashCode in class java.lang.Object

getLabel

public java.lang.String getLabel()

Return a label intended for textual presentation.

lookup

public static POS lookup(java.lang.String key)

Return the PointerType whose key matches key.

Throws:

java.util.NoSuchElementException - If key doesn't name any POS.