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1 /* 2 * OntoLexLR.java 3 * 4 * Copyright (c) 1998-2003, 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, 23/February/2003 12 * 13 * $Id: OntoLexLR.java,v 1.2 2003/03/03 19:06:52 kalina Exp $ 14 */ 15 16 package gate.lexicon; 17 18 import gate.LanguageResource; 19 import java.util.List; 20 import java.util.Set; 21 22 /** 23 * 24 * <p>Title: OntoLexLR interface, GATE2 </p> 25 * <p>Description: This interface describes the mapping between ontological 26 * concepts/instances and lexical entries. Such mapping is needed to 27 * support language generation and also understanding that uses both lexicons 28 * of synonyms and other lexical info and an ontology of the domain. 29 * </p> 30 * <P> Developed for the purpose of the 31 * <a href="http://www.aktors.org/miakt/">MIAKT project</a>, February 2003.</P> 32 * <p>Copyright: Copyright (c) 2000</p> 33 * <p>Company: University Of Sheffield</p> 34 * @author Kalina Bontcheva 35 * @version 1.0 36 */ 37 38 public interface OntoLexLR extends LanguageResource { 39 40 /** Returns a list of objects which are the concept IDs corresponding to 41 * the given lexical Id. A list is returned because there might be more than 42 * one such concept IDs. Null is returned if there is no corresponding 43 * concept ID. 44 */ 45 public List getConceptIds(Object lexId); 46 47 /** Returns a list of objects which are the lexical IDs corresponding to 48 * the given concept Id. A list is returned because there might be more than 49 * one such lexical IDs. Null is returned if there is no corresponding 50 * lexical ID. 51 */ 52 public List getLexIds(Object conceptId); 53 54 /** Returns a list of objects which are all lexical IDs in this mapping. 55 */ 56 public Set getAllLexIds(); 57 58 /** Returns a list of objects which are all concept IDs in this mapping. 59 */ 60 public Set getAllConceptIds(); 61 62 /** Add a concept<->lexical ID pair 63 */ 64 public void add(Object conceptId, Object lexId); 65 66 /** Remove all mappings to lexical items for the given concept Id 67 */ 68 public void removeByConcept(Object conceptId); 69 70 /** Remove all mappings to concept items for the given lexical Id 71 */ 72 public void removeByLexId(Object lexId); 73 74 /** Remove the given mapping 75 */ 76 public void remove(Object conceptId, Object lexId); 77 78 /** 79 * True if the mapping is empty 80 */ 81 public boolean isEmpty(); 82 83 /** 84 * Clear the mapping 85 */ 86 public void clear(); 87 88 /** 89 * Accessor for the lexical Id property. It 90 * specifies which lexicon is this mapping for 91 */ 92 public Object getLexKBIdentifier(); 93 94 /** 95 * Set method for the lexical Id property. It 96 * specifies which lexicon is this mapping for 97 */ 98 public void setLexKBIdentifier(Object lexId); 99 100 /** Accessor for the ontology Id property */ 101 public Object getOntologyIdentifier(); 102 103 /** 104 * Set method for the ontology Id property. It 105 * specifies which ontology is this mapping for 106 */ 107 public void setOntologyIdentifier(Object ontoId); 108 }
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