The equivalence rule directive Sample Clauses

The equivalence rule directive. The rules to define equivalence among lexical objects has been coded by two distinct directive files: a file which contains “what to check” and a file which specifies the “features to check”. The first file describes what the tool has to check when it defines two objects as equivalent. Following the official documentation of the LMF rev. 16, lexical objects are adorned with certain features which add information to the objects which is summed up to the information possibly contained in the attributes. This file contains an entry checkFeats which tells the tool which features must be taken into account for the equivalence. These features are listed in the second file. Figure 5 below describes the relations among DTD, Java and equivalence directive. The method isEquivalent(...) is defined for every object described in section 2.2. This method takes an integer as input parameter and switches to the correct equivalence method defined by the integer. The integer is a value defined by the user which assign a bit to the things (attributes and features) to check. The tool reads the file and assigns the value to the corresponding lexical object. Figure 4: Relations among DTD, Java and equivalence rules