gov.llnl.ontology.wordnet
Interface InformationContent

All Known Implementing Classes:

FileBasedInformationContent

public interface InformationContent

This interface information content values for a set of Synsets.

Author:

Keith Stevens

Method Summary

double	contentForPartOfSpeech(Synset.PartsOfSpeech pos) Returns the raw content counts for a given Synset.PartsOfSpeech
double	contentForSynset(Synset synset) Returns the raw content counts for a given Sysnet.
double	informationContent(Synset synset) Returns the information theoretic content value for a given Synset.

Method Detail

contentForSynset

double contentForSynset(Synset synset)

Returns the raw content counts for a given Sysnet. If there is no content value, -1 is returned.

contentForPartOfSpeech

double contentForPartOfSpeech(Synset.PartsOfSpeech pos)

Returns the raw content counts for a given Synset.PartsOfSpeech

informationContent

double informationContent(Synset synset)

Returns the information theoretic content value for a given Synset. If there is no content value, -1 is returned.