edu.mit.jmwe.harness

Interface IAnswerKey

All Known Implementing Classes:

ConcordanceAnswerKey

public interface IAnswerKey

Classes implementing this interface find the correct multi-word expressions for an IMarkedSentence object. The resulting list of multi-word expressions is used as an answer key that other test lists can be compared against.

Since:

jMWE 1.0.0

Version:

$Id: IAnswerKey.java 319 2011-05-06 20:22:54Z markaf $

Author:

M.A. Finlayson, N. Kulkarni

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
<T extends IToken> java.util.List<IMWE<T>>	getAnswers(IMarkedSentence<T> sentence) Gets the answer multi-word expressions from the given sentence.

Method Detail

getAnswers

<T extends IToken> java.util.List<IMWE<T>> getAnswers(IMarkedSentence<T> sentence)

Gets the answer multi-word expressions from the given sentence. If there are no answers, should return the empty list. Should never return null.

Type Parameters:

T - type of tokens that are contained in the sentence.

Parameters:

sentence - the sentence for which the answers should be retrieved May not be null.

Returns:

a non-null, possibly empty list of answer multi-word expressions for the given sentence

Throws:

java.lang.NullPointerException - if the unit is null

Since:

jMWE 1.0.0