NAME

Lingua::FreeLing3::Word - Interface to FreeLing3 Word object

SYNOPSIS

use Lingua::FreeLing3::Word;

my $empty_word = Lingua::FreeLing3::Word->new;
my $hello_word = Lingua::FreeLing3::Word->new('hello');

DESCRIPTION

CONSTRUCTOR

new

The new constructor returns a new Lingua::FreeLing3::Word object. If a parameter is passed, it is interpreted as the word form, and it is automatically set. Otherwise, an empty word object is returned.

ACESSORS

The word object has some simple accessors to retrieve some information:

as_hash

Returns a reference to a hash with the form, lemma and tag (POS) of the word.

lemma

Returns the word lemma, if set. Note that this value can't be set directly. You can create word analysis, associate them to the word, and then select the desired analysis (setting up the lemma value).

my $word_lemma = $word->lemma;

tag

Returns the word tag (POS), if set. Again, note that this value can't be set directly. You can create word analysis, associate them to the word, and then select the desired analysis (setting up the tag value).

my $word_pos = $word->tag;

analysis

Returns a list of possible analysis. You can pass an extra option FeatureStructure to obtain the analysis as a list of hashes (list of feature structures), instead of Lingua::FreeLing3::Word::Analysis objects.

my $list = $word->analysis(FeatureStructure => 1);

TODO: it is missing the option to add an analysis, or set the full set at once.

ACESSORS/SETTER

The following accessors also work as setters if an extra argument is supplied.

form

Set/retrieve word form.

my $word_form = $word->form;

in_dict

Returns true if the word was found in the dictionary, false otherwise. FIXME: at the moment this method is always returning true.

TODO

There are a lot of methods to interface with the Word object that are currently not implemented. They should be made available as soon as there is time.

SEE ALSO

Lingua::FreeLing3(3) for the documentation table of contents. The freeling library for extra information, or perl(1) itself.

AUTHOR

Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões, <ambs@cpan.org>

Jorge Cunha Mendes <jorgecunhamendes@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2011 by Projecto Natura