gate.lexicon
Interface MutableLexKBSynset

All Superinterfaces:

LexKBSynset

All Known Implementing Classes:

MutableLexKBSynsetImpl

public interface MutableLexKBSynset
extends LexKBSynset

Method Summary

boolean	addWordSense(LexKBWordSense newWordSense) add a new word sense at the end of the synset
boolean	addWordSense(LexKBWordSense newWordSense, int offset) add a new word sense at a given position
void	removeSense(LexKBWordSense theSense)
void	removeSenses()
void	setDefinition(String newDefinition) textual description of the synset
void	setPOS(Object newPOS) sets the part-of-speech for this synset
boolean	setWordSenseIndex(LexKBWordSense wordSense, int newOffset) change the offset of an existing word sense

Methods inherited from interface gate.lexicon.LexKBSynset

getDefinition, getId, getPOS, getWordSense, getWordSenses

Method Detail

setPOS

void setPOS(Object newPOS)

sets the part-of-speech for this synset

setDefinition

void setDefinition(String newDefinition)

textual description of the synset

addWordSense

boolean addWordSense(LexKBWordSense newWordSense)

add a new word sense at the end of the synset

addWordSense

boolean addWordSense(LexKBWordSense newWordSense,
                     int offset)

add a new word sense at a given position

setWordSenseIndex

boolean setWordSenseIndex(LexKBWordSense wordSense,
                          int newOffset)

change the offset of an existing word sense

removeSenses

void removeSenses()

removeSense

void removeSense(LexKBWordSense theSense)