| Word.java |
1
2 /*
3 * Word.java
4 *
5 * Copyright (c) 1998-2004, The University of Sheffield.
6 *
7 * This file is part of GATE (see http://gate.ac.uk/), and is free
8 * software, licenced under the GNU Library General Public License,
9 * Version 2, June 1991 (in the distribution as file licence.html,
10 * and also available at http://gate.ac.uk/gate/licence.html).
11 *
12 * Kalina Bontcheva, 28/January/2003
13 *
14 * $Id: Word.java,v 1.3 2004/07/21 17:10:08 akshay Exp $
15 */
16 package gate.lexicon;
17
18 import java.util.List;
19
20 public interface Word {
21
22 /** returns the senses of this word */
23 public List getWordSenses();
24
25 /** returns the lemma of this word */
26 public String getLemma();
27
28 /** returns the number of senses of this word (not necessarily loading them from storage) */
29 public int getSenseCount();
30
31 }