edu.ucla.sspace.dependency

Interface DependencyRelationAcceptor

All Known Implementing Classes:

SubjObjRelationAcceptor, UniversalRelationAcceptor

public interface DependencyRelationAcceptor

An interface for providing restrictions on dependency relations. When a dependency path is being generated, a DependencyRelationAcceptor will be called for each link in the path. A path will be terminated before the first unacceptable link.

Implementations are recomended to be a thread-safe and stateless. This restricts acceptors to be limited to rejecting a link at a time, as opposed to rejecting a link based on the prior link.

Author:

Keith Stevens

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	accept(DependencyRelation relation) Returns wether or not the given dependency relation should be accepted.

Method Detail

accept

boolean accept(DependencyRelation relation)

Returns wether or not the given dependency relation should be accepted. Relations may be rejected based solely on the part of speech tags, the dependency relation, or on some combination of the three features.

Parameters:

relation - the relation to evaluate

Returns:

true if the relation is acceptable, false otherwise