net.sf.openschema

Interface Ontology

All Known Implementing Classes:

EmptyOntology, RDFOntology

public interface Ontology

An interface encapsulating all the ontological needs of document structuring schemata.

Author:

Pablo Ariel Duboue

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
double	distance(Object concept1, Object concept2) Some notion of semantic distance between the two concepts.
boolean	isA(Object child, Object parent) Whether a child concept is a sub-type of the parent.

Method Detail

isA

boolean isA(Object child,
            Object parent)

Whether a child concept is a sub-type of the parent.

distance

double distance(Object concept1,
                Object concept2)

Some notion of semantic distance between the two concepts.