com.languagecomputer.api
Interface QuestionProcessingWebService

All Superinterfaces:

BaseWebService

All Known Implementing Classes:

QuestionProcessingWebServiceImpl

public interface QuestionProcessingWebService
extends BaseWebService

Interface for question processing web service. Takes in a question and creates a new query, which may contain various forms of querying such as keywords, required entity types, structured data query, etc.

Since:

1.0

Author:

Kirk Roberts

Method Summary

String

process(String sessionID, String question, String format) Creates a query from the question.

Methods inherited from interface com.languagecomputer.api.BaseWebService

registerSession, unregisterSession

Method Detail

process

String process(String sessionID,
               String question,
               String format)
               throws Exception

Creates a query from the question.

Parameters:

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

question - The question, formatted as a raw string.

format - The format in which the query should be returned. Defaults to XML.

Returns:

The created query.

Throws:

Exception - If there was an error processing the question.