IPOSTagger.java

package kb.howtokb.taskframe.extractor;

/**
 * POS tagger interface.
 * Mumbai/NP is/VB nice/JJ <BR>
 * different taggers have diff. separators (e.g. /) <BR>
 * This logic must be implemented by any tagger. 
 *
 * @author ntandon
 *
 */
public interface IPOSTagger {

	/**
	 * tag a tokenized input sentence
	 *
	 * @param input
	 *            a tokenized sentence
	 * @return sentence with tag for each token
	 */
	public String tag(String input);

	/**
	 * get the tag of a tagged token <BR> 
	 * 
	 * @param input
	 *            a tagged token e.g. nice/JJ
	 * @return tag e.g. JJ
	 */
	public String getTag(String input);

	/**
	 * get the original token of a tagged token
	 *
	 * @param input
	 *            a tagged token e.g. nice/JJ
	 * @return original token e.g. nice
	 */
	public String getToken(String input);

}