| MutableLexicalKnowledgeBase.java |
1 /*
2 * LexKBSynset.java
3 *
4 * Copyright (c) 1998-2004, 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: MutableLexicalKnowledgeBase.java,v 1.4 2004/07/21 17:10:08 akshay Exp $
14 */
15 package gate.lexicon;
16
17
18 public interface MutableLexicalKnowledgeBase extends LexicalKnowledgeBase {
19
20 /** returns the lexicon version */
21 public void setVersion(String newVersion);
22
23 /** add a new word */
24 public MutableWord addWord(String lemma);
25
26 /** add a new synset */
27 public MutableLexKBSynset addSynset();
28
29 public void addPOSType(Object newPOSType);
30
31 public void removeWord(MutableWord theWord);
32
33 public void removeSynset(MutableLexKBSynset synset);
34 }