org.openimaj.text.nlp.sentiment.type

Interface Sentiment

All Known Implementing Classes:

BipolarSentiment, DiscreteCountBipolarSentiment, TFFCountSentiment, WeightedBipolarSentiment

public interface Sentiment

A generic sentiment. As sentiments can be very simply (+/-), weighted positive negative or generic things such as mood, the root mainly provide the ability to be returned as a map of results (useful for writing to JSON). However, individual instances are also expected to list the various forms a given sentiment type can take.

Author:

Sina Samangooei (ss@ecs.soton.ac.uk)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Map<String,?>	asMap()
void	fromMap(Map<String,?> map)

Method Detail

asMap

Map<String,?> asMap()

Returns:

return a map representing this sentiment, may be more than just the held sentiments, but extra data

fromMap

void fromMap(Map<String,?> map)
      throws UnrecognisedMapException

Parameters:

map - the map containing this sentiment

Throws:

UnrecognisedMapException