NAME

Lingua::Verbnet::Ambiguity -- query ambiguity stats as collected by Lingua::Verbnet

SYNOPSIS

        use Lingua::Verbnet;
        my @verbnet_xml_files = ... ;
        my $verbnet = Lingua::Verbnet->new(@verbnet_xml_files);
        $verbnet->ambiguity->score('cut'); # get the ambiguity score of the verb 'cut'
        my %stats = $verbnet->ambiguity->hash; # get the full ambiguity scores hash (verb => score)

DESCRIPTION

An object to query ambiguity stats as collected by Lingua::Verbnet.

Accessed through Lingua::Verbnet.

METHODS

score

Given a verb which is a member of a given vnclass, return its ambiguity score as determined by the number of frames within the vnclass.

If a verb is not listed in the verbnet database that had been fed to Lingua::Verbnet, then 0 is returned.

hash

Return the object contents in a hash format, in the form of ( verb1 => score1, verb2 => score2, ... )

SEE ALSO

Lingua::Verbnet

AUTHOR

Vassilii Khachaturov <vassilii@tarunz.org>

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html