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Interface PointerTarget

All Known Implementing Classes:

Synset, Word

public interface PointerTarget

A PointerTarget is the source or target of a Pointer. The target of a semantic PointerTarget is a Synset; the target of a lexical PointerTarget is a Word.

See Also:

Pointer, Synset, Word

Method Summary

java.lang.String	getDescription() Return a description of the target.
java.lang.String	getLongDescription() Return the long description of the target.
Pointer[]	getPointers() Return the outgoing Pointers from the target -- those Pointers that have this object as their source.
Pointer[]	getPointers(PointerType type) Return the outgoing Pointers of type type.
POS	getPOS()
PointerTarget[]	getTargets() Return the targets of the outgoing Pointers.
PointerTarget[]	getTargets(PointerType type) Return the targets of the outgoing Pointers that have type type.

Method Detail

getPOS

public POS getPOS()

getDescription

public java.lang.String getDescription()

Return a description of the target. For a Word, this is it's lemma; for a Synset, it's the concatenated lemma's of its Words.

getLongDescription

public java.lang.String getLongDescription()

Return the long description of the target. This is its description, appended by, if it exists, a dash and it's gloss.

getPointers

public Pointer[] getPointers()

Return the outgoing Pointers from the target -- those Pointers that have this object as their source.

getPointers

public Pointer[] getPointers(PointerType type)

Return the outgoing Pointers of type type.

getTargets

public PointerTarget[] getTargets()

Return the targets of the outgoing Pointers.

getTargets

public PointerTarget[] getTargets(PointerType type)

Return the targets of the outgoing Pointers that have type type.