1   
2   /*
3    *  Word.java
4    *
5    *  Copyright (c) 1998-2005, The University of Sheffield.
6    *
7    *  This file is part of GATE (see http://gate.ac.uk/), and is free
8    *  software, licenced under the GNU Library General Public License,
9    *  Version 2, June 1991 (in the distribution as file licence.html,
10   *  and also available at http://gate.ac.uk/gate/licence.html).
11   *
12   *  Kalina Bontcheva, 28/January/2003
13   *
14   *  $Id: Word.java,v 1.4 2005/01/11 13:51:36 ian Exp $
15   */
16  package gate.lexicon;
17  
18  import java.util.List;
19  
20  public interface Word {
21  
22    /** returns the senses of this word */
23    public List getWordSenses();
24  
25    /** returns the lemma of this word */
26    public String getLemma();
27  
28    /** returns the number of senses of this word (not necessarily loading them from storage) */
29    public int getSenseCount();
30  
31  }