/**
* return the list of WN POSs corresponding to the given generic POS. may return an empty list
*
* @param genericPos
* @return
* @throws LexicalResourceException
*/
private WordNetPartOfSpeech[] toWordNetPartOfspeech(PartOfSpeech genericPos)
throws LexicalResourceException {
WordNetPartOfSpeech[] poss;
if (genericPos == null) poss = WordNetPartOfSpeech.values(); // null is a wildcard POS
else {
WordNetPartOfSpeech wnPos = WordNetPartOfSpeech.toWordNetPartOfspeech(genericPos);
if (wnPos != null) {
poss = ARRAY_OF_ONE_POS;
poss[0] = wnPos;
} else poss = EMPTY_ARRAY_OF_POS;
}
return poss;
}
/**
* Find the ordinal of targetSynset, among the lemma's synsets
*
* @param lemma
* @param pos
* @param targetSynset
* @return
* @throws LexicalResourceException
* @throws WordNetException
*/
private int getSynsetNo(String lemma, PartOfSpeech pos, Synset targetSynset)
throws LexicalResourceException {
int synsetNo = 1;
WordNetPartOfSpeech wnPos = null;
try {
wnPos = WordNetPartOfSpeech.toWordNetPartOfspeech(pos);
if (wnPos != null)
for (Synset synset : dictionary.getSortedSynsetsOf(lemma, wnPos))
if (synset.equals(targetSynset)) return synsetNo;
else synsetNo++;
} catch (WordNetException e) {
throw new LexicalResourceException(
"Error pulling the synsets of <" + lemma + ", " + pos + ">", e);
}
throw new LexicalResourceException(
"Internal error. could not find the following synset in the synset-set of <"
+ lemma
+ ", "
+ wnPos
+ ">: "
+ targetSynset);
}