edu.upenn.cis.ptb
Interface PTBAttribute

All Known Implementing Classes:

PTBTreeNodeImpl.PTBAttributeImpl

public interface PTBAttribute

An attribute asscoiated with a PTBTreeNode. The following attributes may be present:

1. QName: "type" which is the constituent label. E.g. S, NP, VP, NN (on a preterminal), John (on a terminal)
2. QName: "roles" which is a hyphen separated list of roles associated with the node. Examples of roles are SBJ for subject TPC for topic etc.
3. QName: "movementIndex" - A badly named attribute. If present it gives an index associated with a node. In most cases it indicates movement of an item, in which case, there will be a trace terminal with the same movementIndex. But it is also used in the first coordinate in a gapping structure. For example John ate chicken and Bill peas. The NPs John and chicken will have a movementIndices 1 and 2 resply., and the NPs Bill and peas will have gapIndices 1 and 2 resply.
4. QName: "gapIndex" - as mentioned above. Associated with nodes (not in the first coordinate in a gapping structure).
5. QName: "raw" - the raw unprocessed label. Eg. S, S-NOM-SBJ, S-TPC=2-3 (2 is the gapIndex, and 3 is the movementIndex).

For non trace terminals only the "type" and "raw" attributes will be present, and they have the same values, and the same is true of POS tags. Other nodes can have any of the attributes. Index and role attributes will occur only if present.

Author:

nikhild

Method Summary

java.lang.String	ptbGetLocalName() The local name of the attribute
java.lang.String	ptbGetNamespaceURI() The namespaceURI of the attribute.
PTBTreeNode	ptbGetOwnerNode() The PTBTreeNode with which this attribute is associated
java.lang.String	ptbGetPrefix() The prefix associated with the namespace URI
java.lang.String	ptbGetQName() The qualified name of the attribute
java.lang.String	ptbGetValue() The value of the attribute

Method Detail

ptbGetNamespaceURI

public java.lang.String ptbGetNamespaceURI()

The namespaceURI of the attribute.

ptbGetLocalName

public java.lang.String ptbGetLocalName()

The local name of the attribute

ptbGetPrefix

public java.lang.String ptbGetPrefix()

The prefix associated with the namespace URI

ptbGetQName

public java.lang.String ptbGetQName()

The qualified name of the attribute

ptbGetValue

public java.lang.String ptbGetValue()

The value of the attribute

ptbGetOwnerNode

public PTBTreeNode ptbGetOwnerNode()

The PTBTreeNode with which this attribute is associated