Class Anto

java.lang.Object
  Anto

public class Anto
extends java.lang.Object

An abstraction class for holding antonym definitions. Constructed to read the file "anto.dat", which is a CSV-formatted file containg key,value-pairs. The contents of this file is availiable for getting and setting via public methods. This class employs the MultiValueMap from org.apache.commons.collections.map to be able to map one word to different antonymes.

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Syno

Field Summary

java.io.File	antofile
java.io.BufferedReader	d
org.apache.commons.collections.map.MultiValueMap	ht

Constructor Summary

Anto()
Constructor for creating an Anto.

Method Summary

boolean	isAnto(java.lang.String x, java.lang.String y) Method to check if a word is an antonyme of another.
void	setAnto(java.lang.String x, java.lang.String y) Method to define two words as antonymes.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

antofile

public java.io.File antofile

d

public java.io.BufferedReader d

ht

public org.apache.commons.collections.map.MultiValueMap ht

Constructor Detail

Anto

public Anto()

Constructor for creating an Anto. Tries to access the file "anto.dat". If the files does not exist, it is created with default permissions. (Set by umask in UNIX environment)

Method Detail

isAnto

public boolean isAnto(java.lang.String x,
                      java.lang.String y)

Method to check if a word is an antonyme of another. Looks up all antonymes to the word in x, and then traverses all antonyme definitions. Returns true if Y is found. That is, true is the words are antonymes, false if the pair is not defined.

Parameters:

x - the (gold) term to look up

y - the (test) term to compare

Returns:

true if the words are defined antonymes, else false

setAnto

public void setAnto(java.lang.String x,
                    java.lang.String y)

Method to define two words as antonymes. Their sequence is not abitary: the first parameter is from GOLD and the second is from TEST. Writes (appends) the result to anto.dat, and assumes that the file is availiable. (If it was not, there would not have been an instance of Anto availiable.)

Parameters:

x - the GOLD word

y - the TEST word