it.cnr.isti.hpc.dexter.spot.repo

Interface SpotRepository

All Known Implementing Classes:

RamSpotRepository

public interface SpotRepository

SpotRepository allows to retrieve metadata referring to a spot, i.e., a piece of text referring to one or more entities.

Author:

Diego Ceccarelli Created on Sep 10, 2012

See Also:

Spot

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Spot	getSpot(String spot) Given the a piece of text, the method will return a Spot if the given text is associated to one or more entities.

Method Detail

getSpot

Spot getSpot(String spot)

Given the a piece of text, the method will return a Spot if the given text is associated to one or more entities. Otherwise, it will return null.

Parameters:

spot - - a piece of text possibly referring to one or more entities

Returns:

a Spot object containing several informations about the spot and the possible entities linked by the spot, null if the string is not referring to any entity