1   /*
2    *  LexKBSynset.java
3    *
4    *  Copyright (c) 1998-2005, The University of Sheffield.
5    *
6    *  This file is part of GATE (see http://gate.ac.uk/), and is free
7    *  software, licenced under the GNU Library General Public License,
8    *  Version 2, June 1991 (in the distribution as file licence.html,
9    *  and also available at http://gate.ac.uk/gate/licence.html).
10   *
11   *  Kalina Bontcheva, 28/January/2003
12   *
13   *  $Id: LexKBSynset.java,v 1.4 2005/01/11 13:51:36 ian Exp $
14   */
15  
16  package gate.lexicon;
17  
18  import java.util.List;
19  
20  public interface LexKBSynset {
21  
22    /** returns the part-of-speech for this synset*/
23    public Object getPOS();
24  
25    /** textual description of the synset */
26    public String getDefinition();
27  
28    /** WordSenses contained in this synset */
29    public List getWordSenses();
30  
31    /** get specific WordSense according to its order in the synset - most important senses come first  */
32    public LexKBWordSense getWordSense(int offset);
33  
34    /** Returns the Id of the synset, each synset has a unique Id for
35     * connection to the ontology
36     */
37    public Object getId();
38  
39  
40  }