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/*
 * OntoGazetteer.java
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2002, The University of Sheffield.
 *
 * This file is part of GATE (see http://gate.ac.uk/), and is free
 * software, licenced under the GNU Library General Public License,
 * Version 2, June1991.
 *
 * A copy of this licence is included in the distribution in the file
 * licence.html, and is also available at http://gate.ac.uk/gate/licence.html.
 *
 * borislav popov 02/2002
 *
 */
package gate.creole.gazetteer;

/**OntoGazetteer
 * 

 * A gazetter that exploits a linear gazetter to generate annotations
 * according to a mapping definition between lists and ontology classes*/
public interface OntoGazetteer extends Gazetteer {

  /**Sets name of the gazzetteer
   * @param name the name to be set   */
  public void setGazetteerName(String name) ;

  /** Gets the name of the gazetteer
   *  @return the name of the gazetteer  */
  public String getGazetteerName();

  /**Gets the linear gazetteer associated with this onto gazetteer
   * @return the linear gazetteer */
  public Gazetteer getGazetteer();

  /**Associates a linear gazetteer with an onto gazetteer
   * @param gaze the linear gazetteer to be associated with this onto gazetteer */
  public void setGazetteer(Gazetteer gaze);

  /**Sets the url of the mapping definition
   * @param url the url of the mapping definition  */
  public void setMappingURL(java.net.URL url) ;

  /**Gets the url of the mapping definition
   * @return the url of the mapping definition  */
  public java.net.URL getMappingURL() ;

} // interface OntoGazetteer