org.corpus_tools.salt.common

Interface SSpan

All Superinterfaces:

IdentifiableElement, LabelableElement, Node, SAnnotationContainer, SDocumentGraphObject, Serializable, SNamedElement, SNode, SPathElement, SStructuredNode

All Known Implementing Classes:

SSpanImpl

public interface SSpan
extends SStructuredNode, SDocumentGraphObject

A span is used to group a couple of tokens together to give them exactly the same annotation or to connect them as a bunch with a 3rd node at once. A span therefore has the semantic of an ordered set. In a graph-based world, we need to model such an ordered set as nodes and edges. Therefore Salt provides the node type SSpan and the relation type SSpanningRelation. A SSpan object represents the span itself and for instance could be annotated or linked with other nodes. To mark a token as being part of the set, a SSpanningRelation object connects each token with the span. A SSpanningRelation always has a span as source and a token as target.

Author:

florian

Method Summary

Methods inherited from interface org.corpus_tools.salt.core.SNode

getGraph, getInRelations, getLayers, getOutRelations

Methods inherited from interface org.corpus_tools.salt.graph.Node

addLayer, removeLayer, setGraph

Methods inherited from interface org.corpus_tools.salt.graph.IdentifiableElement

getId, getIdentifier, setId, setIdentifier

Methods inherited from interface org.corpus_tools.salt.graph.LabelableElement

addLabel, containsLabel, getLabel, getLabel, getLabels, getLabelsByNamespace, removeAll, removeLabel, removeLabel, sizeLabels

Methods inherited from interface org.corpus_tools.salt.core.SAnnotationContainer

addAnnotation, addFeature, addMetaAnnotation, addProcessingAnnotation, createAnnotation, createAnnotations, createFeature, createFeatures, createMetaAnnotation, createMetaAnnotations, createProcessingAnnotation, createProcessingAnnotations, getAnnotation, getAnnotation, getAnnotations, getFeature, getFeature, getFeatures, getMetaAnnotation, getMetaAnnotations, getProcessingAnnotation, getProcessingAnnotations, iterator_SAnnotation, iterator_SFeature, iterator_SMetaAnnotation, iterator_SProcessingAnnotation

Methods inherited from interface org.corpus_tools.salt.core.SNamedElement

getName, setName

Methods inherited from interface org.corpus_tools.salt.core.SPathElement

getPath

Methods inherited from interface org.corpus_tools.salt.common.SDocumentGraphObject

getGraph