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Interface IExceptionEntryProxy

All Superinterfaces:

Serializable

All Known Subinterfaces:

IExceptionEntry

All Known Implementing Classes:

ExceptionEntry, ExceptionEntryProxy

public interface IExceptionEntryProxy
extends Serializable

The data that can be obtained from a line in an exception entry file. Because each exception entry does not specify its associated part of speech, this object is just a proxy and must be supplemented by the part of speech at some point to make a full IExceptionEntry object.

Since:

JWI 1.0

Version:

2.4.0

Author:

Mark A. Finlayson

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
List<String>	getRootForms() Returns an unmodifiable list of cceptable root forms for the surface form.
String	getSurfaceForm() Returns the surface form (i.e., not the root form) of the word for this exception entry.

Method Detail

getSurfaceForm

String getSurfaceForm()

Returns the surface form (i.e., not the root form) of the word for this exception entry. 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

Since:

JWI 1.0

getRootForms

List<String> getRootForms()

Returns an unmodifiable list of cceptable root forms for the surface form.

Returns:

A non-null, non-empty, unmodifiable list of root forms

Since:

JWI 2.0.0