edu.columbia.surge
Interface Common

All Known Implementing Classes:

CommonH

public abstract interface Common

extends FD

The Common category for a FD. Methods to set the lex and the head of the common category are provided. There are a lot of variations you can make to the noun such as setting it to be definite, plural... Since there are too many options and they are not common, methods are not provided to set those properties. And setLex() will be the only required/automate method provided here.

See Also:

CommonFactory

Inner classes inherited from class java.util.Map

java.util.Map.Entry

Method Summary

void	setDefinite(boolean definite) A method to set whether the common cat should be definite
void	setLex(java.lang.String lex) A method to set the head of the common category

Methods inherited from interface edu.columbia.surge.FD

checkPath, checkPath, getPath, getPath, putPath, putPath, putPathOverride, putPathOverride, toString, toXML

Methods inherited from interface java.util.Map

clear, containsKey, containsValue, entrySet, equals, get, hashCode, isEmpty, keySet, put, putAll, remove, size, values

Method Detail

setLex

public void setLex(java.lang.String lex)

A method to set the head of the common category

Parameters:

lex - the lexical entry of the common phrase

setDefinite

public void setDefinite(boolean definite)

A method to set whether the common cat should be definite

Parameters:

true - to be definite, false to be non-definite