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: MutableLexicalKnowledgeBase.java,v 1.5 2005/01/11 13:51:36 ian Exp $
14   */
15  package gate.lexicon;
16  
17  
18  public interface MutableLexicalKnowledgeBase extends LexicalKnowledgeBase {
19  
20    /** returns the lexicon version */
21    public void setVersion(String newVersion);
22  
23    /** add a new word */
24    public MutableWord addWord(String lemma);
25  
26    /** add a new synset */
27    public MutableLexKBSynset addSynset();
28  
29    public void addPOSType(Object newPOSType);
30  
31    public void removeWord(MutableWord theWord);
32  
33    public void removeSynset(MutableLexKBSynset synset);
34  }