1   /*
2    *  WordSense.java
3    *
4    *  Copyright (c) 1998-2002, 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: WordSense.java,v 1.4 2002/05/30 09:54:17 marin Exp $
14   */
15  
16  package gate.wordnet;
17  
18  import java.util.*;
19  
20  import gate.*;
21  import gate.event.*;
22  
23  
24  /** Represents WordNet word sense.
25   */
26  public interface WordSense {
27  
28    /** returns the Word of this WordSense */
29    public Word getWord();
30  
31    /** part-of-speech for this sense (inherited from the containing synset) */
32    public int getPOS();
33  
34    /** synset of this sense */
35    public Synset getSynset();
36  
37    /** order of this sense relative to the word - i.e. most important senses of the same word come first */
38    public int getSenseNumber();
39  
40    /** order of this sense relative to the synset- i.e. most important senses of the same synset come first */
41    public int getOrderInSynset();
42  
43    /** appears in SEMCOR? */
44    public boolean isSemcor();
45  
46    /** return the Lex relations this sense participates in */
47    public List getLexicalRelations() throws WordNetException ;
48  
49    /** return the Lex relations (of the specified type) this sense participates in */
50    public List getLexicalRelations(int type) throws WordNetException ;
51  
52  }
53  
54