fido.linguistic.components
Class AdjectiveClass

java.lang.Object
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public class AdjectiveClass

extends java.lang.Object

Represents an adjective within the sentence. Adjectives serve two purposes:

• When searching for an existing class, adjectives provide a way to narrow the search. For example, The blue frisbee. The adjective blue would help the system identify the frisbee the user is talking about be narrowing the color attribute to blue.
• When creating a new noun, adjectives add attributes, which later possibly uniquely identify the noun.

Adjectives can have a comparative and superlative type that compares two or more nouns. This is currently not supported.

Field Summary

static int	COMPARATIVE Constant used for the type field.
static int	NORMAL Constant used for the type field.
static int	SUPERLATIVE Constant used for the type field.

Constructor Summary

AdjectiveClass(java.lang.String adjective, int type)
Creates a new AdjectiveClass.

Method Summary

int	getType() Returns the type of this adjective.
java.lang.String	toString() Returns the string for this adjective.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

NORMAL

public static final int NORMAL

Constant used for the type field. Defines the adjective as normal (not comparative or superlative).

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Constant Field Values

COMPARATIVE

public static final int COMPARATIVE

Constant used for the type field. Defines the adjective as a comparative, which means the adjective describes the difference between two nouns. In English, an example would be better.

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Constant Field Values

SUPERLATIVE

public static final int SUPERLATIVE

Constant used for the type field. Defines the adjective as a superlative, which means the adjective describes the difference between more than two nouns. In English, an example would be best.

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Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

AdjectiveClass

public AdjectiveClass(java.lang.String adjective,
                      int type)

Creates a new AdjectiveClass.

Parameters:

adjective - String containing the adjective

type - Type of adjective. Can be one of the following:

• Normal
• Comparative
• Superlative

The constants defined in this class should be used.

Method Detail

getType

public int getType()

Returns the type of this adjective. Type can be one of

• Normal
• Comparative
• Superlative

One of the constants in this class will be returned.

Returns:

Returns the type of this adjective.

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Returns the string for this adjective.

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object

Returns:

Returns the string for this adjective.