net.sf.extjwnl.data.relationship

Class SymmetricRelationship

java.lang.Object

net.sf.extjwnl.data.relationship.Relationship

net.sf.extjwnl.data.relationship.SymmetricRelationship

public class SymmetricRelationship
extends Relationship

A symmetric relationship is one whose type is symmetric (its own inverse). An example of a symmetric relationship is synonymy (since, if a is a synonym of b, then be is a synonym of a). Symmetric relationships differ from asymmetric relationships in that there is no definite divergence point between the ancestry of the source and target synsets. Another way of saying this is that the target synset will always be in the source's ancestry, and vice versa. For this reason, symmetric relationships have no concept of a common parent index.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
SymmetricRelationship(PointerType type, PointerTargetNodeList nodes, Synset sourceSynset, Synset targetSynset)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Relationship	reverse()

Methods inherited from class net.sf.extjwnl.data.relationship.Relationship

equals, getDepth, getNodeList, getSize, getSourcePointerTarget, getSourceSynset, getTargetPointerTarget, getTargetSynset, getType, hashCode, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

SymmetricRelationship

public SymmetricRelationship(PointerType type,
                             PointerTargetNodeList nodes,
                             Synset sourceSynset,
                             Synset targetSynset)

Method Detail

reverse

public Relationship reverse()
                     throws java.lang.CloneNotSupportedException

Specified by:

reverse in class Relationship

Throws:

java.lang.CloneNotSupportedException