1   /*
2    *  WordSense.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: WordSense.java,v 1.7 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 sense.
22   */
23  public interface WordSense {
24  
25    /** returns the Word of this WordSense */
26    public Word getWord();
27  
28    /** part-of-speech for this sense (inherited from the containing synset) */
29    public int getPOS();
30  
31    /** synset of this sense */
32    public Synset getSynset();
33  
34    /** order of this sense relative to the word - i.e. most important senses of the same word come first */
35    public int getSenseNumber();
36  
37    /** order of this sense relative to the synset- i.e. most important senses of the same synset come first */
38    public int getOrderInSynset();
39  
40    /** appears in SEMCOR? */
41    public boolean isSemcor();
42  
43    /** return the Lex relations this sense participates in */
44    public List getLexicalRelations() throws WordNetException ;
45  
46    /** return the Lex relations (of the specified type) this sense participates in */
47    public List getLexicalRelations(int type) throws WordNetException ;
48  
49  }
50  
51