EST_Utterance.h

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/*                    Author :  Paul Taylor                              */
/*                    Date   :  May 1995 (redone May 1998)               */
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/*                  EST_Utterance Class header file                      */
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#ifndef __Utterance_H__
#define __Utterance_H__

#include "EST_String.h"
#include "EST_TList.h"
#include "ling_class/EST_Relation.h"
#include "ling_class/EST_Item.h"
#include "EST_Features.h"

/** @class EST_Utterance
    @ingroup estlingclasses
  A class that contains EST_Item and EST_Relation between them.
Used for holding interrelated linguistic structures.
*/
class EST_Utterance{
private:
    void copy(const EST_Utterance &u);
    int highest_id;
public:
    /**@name Constructor and initialisation Functions */
    ///@{
    /// default constructor
    EST_Utterance();
    EST_Utterance(const EST_Utterance &u) { copy(u); }
    ~EST_Utterance() {clear();}
    ///@}

    /**@name Utility Functions */
    ///@{
    ///  initialise utterance
    void init();

    /// remove everything in utterance
    void clear();

    /// clear the contents of the relations only
    void clear_relations();

    /// set the next id to be `n`
    void set_highest_id(int n) {highest_id=n;}
    /// return the id of the next item
    int next_id();
    ///@}

    /**@name File i/o */
    ///@{
    /** load an utterance from an ascii file
      */
    EST_read_status load(const EST_String &filename);
    /** load an utterance from a already opened token stream
      */
    EST_read_status load(EST_TokenStream &ts);

    /** save an utterance to an ascii file
      */
    EST_write_status save(const EST_String &filename,
              const EST_String &type="est_ascii") const;

    /** save an utterance to an ostream
      */
    EST_write_status save(ostream &outf,const EST_String &type) const;
    ///@}  

    EST_Utterance &operator=(const EST_Utterance &s);
    friend ostream& operator << (ostream &s, const EST_Utterance &u);
    EST_Relation * operator() (const EST_String &name)
    { return relation(name);}

    /** Utterance access
     */
    ///@{

    /// Utterance level features
    EST_Features f;

    /// Evaluate all feature functions in utterance
    void evaluate_all_features();
    
    /// The list of named relations
    EST_Features relations;

    /// number of relations in this utterance
    int num_relations() const { return relations.length(); }

    /** returns true if utterance contains named relations.
      **name** can be either a single string or a bracketed list
      of strings e.g. "(Word Phone Syl)".  */
    bool relation_present(const EST_String name) const;

    /** returns true if utterance contains all the relations
      named in the list **name**. */
    bool relation_present(EST_StrList &names) const;

    /// get relation by name
    EST_Relation *relation(const char *name,int err_on_not_found=1) const;

    /// return EST_Item whose id is `n`.
    EST_Item *id(const EST_String &n) const;

    /// create a new relation called `n`.
    EST_Relation *create_relation(const EST_String &relname);

    /// remove the relation called `n`.
    void remove_relation(const EST_String &relname);
        
    void sub_utterance(EST_Item *i);
    ///@}
};

void utt_2_flat_repr( const EST_Utterance &utt,
              EST_String &flat_repr );

int utterance_merge(EST_Utterance &utt,
            EST_Utterance &sub_utt,
            EST_Item *utt_root,
            EST_Item *sub_root);

int utterance_merge(EST_Utterance &utt,
            EST_Utterance &extra,
            EST_String feature);

void sub_utterance(EST_Utterance &sub,EST_Item *i);

#endif