edu.stanford.nlp.parser
Interface Parser

All Known Subinterfaces:

ViterbiParser

All Known Implementing Classes:

LexicalizedParser

public interface Parser

The interface for parser objects. The only responsibility of a parser is to return the parsability of input sentences. There is no specification of a goal: this will be determined by the implementing class. Specification of the grammar or model parameters is meant to be done implementing classes' constructors.

Method Summary

boolean

parse(Sentence sentence) Parses the given sentence.

Method Detail

parse

public boolean parse(Sentence sentence)

Parses the given sentence. For any words in the sentence which implement HasTag, the tag will be beleived. The return value will be false if the sentence is not parseable.

Parameters:

sentence - a Sentence value

Returns:

true iff the sentence is recognized