enhancer/generic/nlp/src/main/java/org/apache/stanbol/enhancer/nlp/pos/LexicalCategory.java

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package org.apache.stanbol.enhancer.nlp.pos;

import org.apache.clerezza.rdf.core.UriRef;

/**
 * Lexical categories used by the Stanbol Enhancer NLP module. Defined based on the top level
 * MorphosyntacticCategory as defined by the <a heref="http://olia.nlp2rdf.org/">Olia</a> Ontology.
 */
public enum LexicalCategory {
    /**
     * A noun, or noun substantive, is a part of speech (a word or phrase) which can co-occur with
     * (in)definite articles and attributive adjectives, and function as the head of a noun phrase.
     * 
     * The word "noun" derives from the Latin 'nomen' meaning "name", and a traditional definition of nouns is
     * that they are all and only those expressions that refer to a person, place, thing, event, substance,
     * quality, idea or an appointment. They serve as the subject or object of a verb, and the object of a
     * preposition. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun 19.09.06)
     */
    Noun,
    /**
     * A verb is a part of speech that usually denotes action ("bring", "read"), occurrence ("decompose",
     * "glitter"), or a state of being ("exist", "stand"). Depending on the language, a verb may vary in form
     * according to many factors, possibly including its tense, aspect, mood and voice. It may also agree with
     * the person, gender, and/or number of some of its arguments (subject, object, etc.).
     * (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verb 19.09.06)
     */
    Verb,
    /**
     * An Adjective is a noun-modifying expression that specifies the properties or attributes of the nominal
     * referent. (http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsAnAdjective.htm 18.9.06)
     */
    Adjective,
    /**
     * An adposition is a cover term for prepositions, postpositions and circumpositions. It expresses a
     * grammatical and semantic relation to another unit within a clause.
     * (http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsAnAdposition.htm,
     * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adposition 19.09.06)
     * 
     * The majority of cases of adpositions we have to consider in European languages are prepositions.
     * (http://www.ilc.cnr.it/EAGLES96/annotate/node17.html#SECTION00062200000000000000 19.09.06)
     */
    Adposition,
    /**
     * An adverb is a part of speech that serves to modify non-nominal parts of speech, i.e., verbs,
     * adjectives (including numbers), clauses, sentences and other adverbs. Modifiers of nouns are primarily
     * determiners and adjectives. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverbs 18.09.06)
     */
    Adverb,
    /**
     * A conjunction is a word that syntactically links words or larger constituents, and expresses a semantic
     * relationship between them.
     * (http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsAConjunction.htm 19.09.06)
     */
    Conjuction,
    /**
     * An interjection is a form, typically brief, such as one syllable or word, which is used most often as
     * an exclamation or part of an exclamation. It typically expresses an emotional reaction, often with
     * respect to an accompanying sentence and may include a combination of sounds not otherwise found in the
     * language, e.g. in English: psst; ugh; well, well
     * (http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsAnInterjection.htm 19.09.06)
     */
    Interjection,
    /**
     * The parts of speech Pronoun, Determiner and Article heavily overlap in their formal and functional
     * characteristics, and different analyses for different languages entail separating them out in different
     * ways. In Eagles, Pronouns and Determiners are placed in one `super-category'. For some descriptions it
     * may be thought best to treat them as totally different parts of speech.
     * (http://www.ilc.cnr.it/EAGLES96/annotate/node17.html#recp 19.09.06)
     */
    PronounOrDeterminer,
    /**
     * Punctuation marks (PU) are treated here as a part of morphosyntactic annotation, as it is very common
     * for punctuation marks to be tagged and to be treated as equivalent to words for the purposes of
     * automatic tag assignment. (http://www.ilc.cnr.it/EAGLES96/annotate/node16.html#mp 19.09.06)
     */
    Punctuation,
    /**
     * A quantifier is a determiner that expresses a referent's definite or indefinite number or amount. A
     * quantifier functions as a modifier of a noun, or pronoun.
     * (http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsAQuantifier.htm 19.09.06)
     */
    Quantifier,
    /**
     * From a linguistic point of view, Residuals are a heterogeneous class and so, Residual may overlap with
     * every linguistically motivate annotation concept. Also between subconcepts, overlap may occur (e.g.
     * \LaTeX which is a symbol which can be read as an Acronym or acronyms which are related to
     * Abbreviations, e.g. GNU "Gnu is not Unix")
     */
    Residual,
    /**
     * Unique approximates the linguistic concept "Particle". It covers categories with unique or very small
     * membership, such as negative particle, which are `unassigned' to any of the standard part-of-speech
     * categories. (http://www.ilc.cnr.it/EAGLES96/annotate/node16.html#mp 19.09.06)
     */
    Unique,
    ;
    static final String OLIA_NAMESPACE = "http://purl.org/olia/olia.owl#";

    UriRef uri;

    LexicalCategory() {
        this.uri = new UriRef(OLIA_NAMESPACE + name());
    }

    public UriRef getUri() {
        return uri;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return "olia:" + name();
    }
}