edu.stanford.nlp.trees
Interface Dependency

All Superinterfaces:

Serializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

UnnamedDependency

public interface Dependency
extends Serializable

An individual dependency between a governor and a dependent. The governor and dependent are represented as a Label. For example, these can be a Word or a WordTag. If one wishes the dependencies to preserve positions in a sentence, then each can be a LabeledConstituent. Dependencies support an object naming the dependency type. This may be null. Dependencies have factories.

Author:

Christopher Manning

Method Summary

DependencyFactory	dependencyFactory() Provide a factory for this kind of dependency
Label	dependent() Describes the dependent (argument/modifier) of the dependency relation.
boolean	equalIgnoringName(Object o) Are two dependencies equal if you ignore the dependency name.
Label	governor() Describes the governor (regent/head) of the dependency relation.
Object	name() Names the type of dependency (subject, instrument, ...).
String	toString(String format) Provide different printing options via a String keyword.

Method Detail

governor

Label governor()

Describes the governor (regent/head) of the dependency relation.

dependent

Label dependent()

Describes the dependent (argument/modifier) of the dependency relation.

name

Object name()

Names the type of dependency (subject, instrument, ...). This might be a String in the simplest case, but can provide for arbitrary object types.

equalIgnoringName

boolean equalIgnoringName(Object o)

Are two dependencies equal if you ignore the dependency name.

toString

String toString(String format)

Provide different printing options via a String keyword. The main recognized option currently is "xml". Otherwise the default toString() is used.

dependencyFactory

DependencyFactory dependencyFactory()

Provide a factory for this kind of dependency