Class SymmetricRelationship


  • public class SymmetricRelationship
    extends Relationship
    A symmetric relationship is one whose type is symmetric (its own inverse). An example of a symmetric relationship is synonomy (since, if a is a synonym of b, then be is a synonym of a). Symmetric relationsips differ from asymmetric relationships in that there is no definite divergence point between the ancestry of the source and target synsets. Another way of saying this is that the target synset will always been in the source's ancestry, and vice versa. For this reason, symmetric relationships have no concept of a common parent index.