edu.mit.jwi.item
Interface IExceptionEntryID

All Superinterfaces:

IHasPOS, IItemID<IExceptionEntry>

All Known Implementing Classes:

ExceptionEntryID

public interface IExceptionEntryID
extends IHasPOS, IItemID<IExceptionEntry>

A unique identifier sufficient to retrieve the specified exception entry from Wordnet.

Since:

JWI 1.0

Version:

2.2.2

Author:

Mark A. Finlayson

Method Summary

String

getSurfaceForm() Returns the surface form (i.e., not the root form) of the word for which a morphological exception entry is desired.

Methods inherited from interface edu.mit.jwi.item.IHasPOS

getPOS

Method Detail

getSurfaceForm

String getSurfaceForm()

Returns the surface form (i.e., not the root form) of the word for which a morphological exception entry is desired. Because all surface forms in the exception files are lower case, the string returned by this call is also lower case.

Returns:

the lowercase surface form of the exception entry indicated by this id object

Since:

JWI 1.0