fido.linguistic.components
Interface Noun

All Known Implementing Classes:

NounPhrase, Pronoun, ProperNounList, ResolvedNoun

public interface Noun

A Noun is a generic interface that generalizes any component that can act as a noun.

• NounPhrase - an actual noun, with all associated prepositional phrases, an optional article, and any adjectives.
• Pronoun - a holder for a ResolvedNoun in the Discourse.
• ProperNounList - list of nouns possibly referenced by a proper noun word

After creating the sentence structure with the above classes, the Resolver module replaces all of the above in the sentence with ResolvedNoun classes.

See Also:

NounPhrase, Pronoun, ProperNounList, ResolvedNoun, Resolver