1   /*
2    *  MutableWord.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: MutableWord.java,v 1.4 2005/01/11 13:51:36 ian Exp $
14   */
15  
16  package gate.lexicon;
17  
18  public interface MutableWord extends Word {
19  
20    /** Add a new sense to this word*/
21    public LexKBWordSense addSense(MutableLexKBSynset wordSynset);
22  
23    /** Add a new sense to this word at the given index*/
24    public LexKBWordSense addSense(int index, MutableLexKBSynset wordSynset);
25  
26    public void removeSenses();
27  
28    public void removeSense(LexKBWordSense theSense);
29  }