| Word.java |
1 /*
2 * Word.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 * Marin Dimitrov, 16/May/2002
12 *
13 * $Id: Word.java,v 1.5 2004/07/21 17:10:10 akshay 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
36