getGloss() Vs getDescription() in rita wordnet - wordnet

Question

I'm using rita wordnet for my college project. I need to extract definitions of each and every word. When I am using getGloss(), a string with many one or more definitions is getting returned. Since I want only one definition per word, I turned to getDescription().
So I'm just wondering that every word in rita wordnet contains its definition in getDescription() too or just in getGloss()??
Also, If you can please help me with this.. How to retrieve words from rita wordnet?? I can't find any method to retrieve words like getWord() or something like that??

Answer 1

So I'm just wondering that every word in rita wordnet contains its definition in getDescription() too or just in getGloss()??
getDescription() returns the definition;
getGloss() returns the definition plus an example sentence (gloss?).
Looks like getGloss() is a superset of getDescription() in RiTa.
Following are the implementations of those methods in rita.RiWordNet.java:
/**
* Returns full gloss for 1st sense of 'word' with 'pos'
*/
public String getGloss(String word, String pos)
{
Synset synset = getSynsetAtIndex(word, pos, 1);
return getGloss(synset);
}
/**
* Returns description for <code>word</code> with <code>pos</code> or null if
* not found
*/
public String getDescription(String word, String pos)
{
String gloss = getGloss(word, pos);
return WordnetUtil.parseDescription(gloss);
}
How to retrieve words from rita wordnet??
Not sure what kinds of words you'd like to retrieve. If you were talking about word definition I believe you can do that with getAllGlosses() and getAllSynsets().
You may even write a getAllDescription() at your disposal.
Or check the reference of the RiTa library here to look for the methods you desire.

Answer 2

The documentation shows that 'getDescription()' has been removed. You can use getGloss() or getExamples(), or getSynset(), as you need. Some examples:
RiWordNet ww = new RiWordNet("/path/to/WordNet");
System.out.println(Arrays.asList(rw.getSynset("dog", "n", 1)));
System.out.println(Arrays.asList(rw.getAllGlosses("dog", "n")));
System.out.println(Arrays.asList(rw.getGloss("dog", "n")));
System.out.println(Arrays.asList(rw.getExamples("dog", "n")));