com.languagecomputer.api.text
Interface Entity

All Superinterfaces:

Text

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultEntity

public interface Entity
extends Text

Representation of an entity. Entities contain a type from an Entity Type Hierarchy.

Since:

1.0

Author:

Kirk Roberts

Field Summary

static AnnotationType<Entity>

TYPE

Method Summary

String

getType() Returns the type of this Entity.

Methods inherited from interface com.languagecomputer.api.text.Text

getAnnotationType, getCongruentAnnotations, getDocument, getDocumentID, getEndCharOffset, getIntersectingAnnotations, getRawString, getStartCharOffset, getSubAnnotations, getSuperAnnotations

Field Detail

TYPE

static final AnnotationType<Entity> TYPE

Method Detail

getType

String getType()

Returns the type of this Entity.

Returns:

The String representation of this Entity's type.