com.languagecomputer.api
Interface TemporalWebService

All Superinterfaces:

BaseWebService

All Known Implementing Classes:

TemporalWebServiceImpl

public interface TemporalWebService
extends BaseWebService

Interface for temporal information annotation web service. The service takes a document and annotates the temporal expressions with normalized date / time values.

Since:

1.0

Author:

Toby Jungen

Method Summary

String

process(String sessionID, String document, String format) Annotates the provided document with temporal spans.

Methods inherited from interface com.languagecomputer.api.BaseWebService

registerSession, unregisterSession

Method Detail

process

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

Annotates the provided document with temporal spans.

Parameters:

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

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

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

Returns:

The identified temporal spans in the format requested.

Throws:

Exception - If there was an error processing the document.