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: LexicalKnowledgeBase.java,v 1.5 2005/01/11 13:51:36 ian Exp $
14   */
15  
16  package gate.lexicon;
17  
18  
19  import java.util.Iterator;
20  import java.util.List;
21  
22  public interface LexicalKnowledgeBase extends Lexicon {
23  
24    /** returns the lexicon version */
25    public String getVersion();
26  
27    /** returns all synsets for a specific POS */
28    public Iterator getSynsets(Object pos);
29  
30    /** returns list of WordSense-s for specific lemma */
31    public List lookupWord(String lemma);
32  
33    /** returns list of WordSense-s for specific lemma of the specified POS */
34    public List lookupWord(String lemma, Object pos);
35  
36    public Object[] getPOSTypes();
37  
38  }