001/** 002 * Portions Copyright 2001 Sun Microsystems, Inc. 003 * Portions Copyright 1999-2001 Language Technologies Institute, 004 * Carnegie Mellon University. 005 * All Rights Reserved. Use is subject to license terms. 006 * 007 * See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and 008 * redistribution of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL 009 * WARRANTIES. 010 */ 011package com.sun.speech.freetts; 012 013/** 014 * Determines the part of speech of a word. 015 */ 016public interface PartOfSpeech { 017 /** 018 * Returns a description of the part of speech given a word. 019 * The string is implementation dependent. 020 * 021 * @param word the word to classify 022 * 023 * @return an implementation dependent part of speech for the word 024 */ 025 String getPartOfSpeech(String word); 026} 027 028