1   /*
2    *  NLGWordSense.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: NLGLexWordSense.java,v 1.4 2005/01/11 13:51:36 ian Exp $
14   */
15  
16  
17  package gate.lexicon;
18  
19  import java.util.HashMap;
20  
21  public interface NLGLexWordSense extends MutableLexKBWordSense {
22  
23    /** Sets the extra syntactic info, which is a hash map
24     with keys strings (e.g., synt-category) and values
25     any object that is serialisable */
26    public void setExtraInfo(HashMap newInfo);
27  
28    /** Add extra info for the given key and value */
29    public void addExtraInfo(String key, Object value);
30  
31    /** Returns the extra info associated with a key */
32    public Object getExtraInfo(String key);
33  
34    /** Returns all extra info for this entry */
35    public HashMap getExtraInfo();
36  }