com.languagecomputer.api
Interface AnswerExtractionWebService

All Superinterfaces:

BaseWebService

All Known Implementing Classes:

AnswerExtractionWebServiceImpl

public interface AnswerExtractionWebService
extends BaseWebService

Interface for answer extraction web service. Takes in a query and set of query results (documents) and returns a list of answers.

Since:

1.0

Author:

Kirk Roberts

Method Summary

String

extractAnswers(String sessionID, String query, String queryResults, String format) Extracts answers to the query from a set of query results.

Methods inherited from interface com.languagecomputer.api.BaseWebService

registerSession, unregisterSession

Method Detail

extractAnswers

String extractAnswers(String sessionID,
                      String query,
                      String queryResults,
                      String format)
                      throws Exception

Extracts answers to the query from a set of query results.

Parameters:

sessionID - The unique identifier String for the session for this operation.

query - The query in the format described in the format parameter.

queryResults - The query result (documents) in the format described in the format.

format - The format in which the queryResults and query are in and which the answers should be returned. Defaults to XML.

Returns:

The extracted answers for the query from the given queryResults.

Throws:

Exception - If there was an error extracting answers.