Utterance

Namespace: Nlp4Net.NlpLib Assembly: NlpLib.dll

public class Utterance : IUserData, ICloneable

Utterance represents the smallest piece of exchangeable semantic information. You can analyze syntax relations between Words to convert Utterance.Syntaxes into your semantic representation.

Utterance is the result of applying Natural Language processor to a text.

Note: syntax ambiguity

Utterance may have more than one Syntax. It happens when Word syntax information is not enough to make a single choice. Syntax ambiguity may be resolved at semantic and pragmatic layers of processing.

Constructors	Description
Utterance()	creates an empty Utterance
Utterance(Utterance other)	copy constructor

Methods	Description
object ICloneable.Clone()	creates a copy of Utterance

Properties	Description
Utterance.Flag Flags	Contains optional hints for further processing.
Lexeme[] Lexemes	An array of Lexemes comprising the Utterance
SyntaxNode[] Syntaxes	Reed-Kellogg tree syntaxes of this Utterance
object IUserData.UserData	Your arbitrary object