| Synset.java |
1 /*
2 * Synset.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: Synset.java,v 1.8 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 synset.
22 */
23 public interface Synset {
24
25 /** returns the part-of-speech for this synset, see WordNet::POS_XXX constants */
26 public int getPOS();
27
28 /** is this synset a UB - i.e. has no hypernym */
29 public boolean isUniqueBeginner() throws WordNetException;
30
31 /** textual description of the synset */
32 public String getGloss();
33
34 /** offset in index files */
35 public long getOffset();
36
37 /** WordSenses contained in this synset */
38 public List getWordSenses();
39
40 /** get specific WordSense according to its order in the synset - most important senses come first */
41 public WordSense getWordSense(int offset);
42
43 /** get the SemanticRelation-s of this synset */
44 public List getSemanticRelations() throws WordNetException;
45
46 /** get the SemanticRelation-s of specific type (HYPERNYm) for this synset */
47 public List getSemanticRelations(int type) throws WordNetException;
48
49 }
50
51