1   /*
2    *  Word.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   *  Marin Dimitrov, 16/May/2002
12   *
13   *  $Id: Word.java,v 1.6 2005/01/11 13:51:38 ian Exp $
14   */
15  
16  package gate.wordnet;
17  
18  import java.util.List;
19  
20  
21  /** Represents WordNet word.
22   */
23  public interface Word {
24  
25    /** returns the senses of this word */
26    public List getWordSenses() throws WordNetException;
27  
28    /** returns the lemma of this word */
29    public String getLemma();
30  
31    /** returns the number of senses of this word (not necessarily loading them from storage) */
32    public int getSenseCount();
33  
34  }
35  
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