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GATE - general achitecture for text engineering - is open source software capable of solving almost any text processing problem. This artifact enables you to embed the core GATE Embedded with its essential dependencies. You will able to use the GATE Embedded API and load and store GATE XML documents. This artifact is the perfect dependency for CREOLE plugins or for applications that need to customize the GATE dependencies due to confict with their own dependencies or for lower footprint.

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/*
 *  Synset.java
 *
 *  Copyright (c) 1995-2012, The University of Sheffield. See the file
 *  COPYRIGHT.txt in the software or at http://gate.ac.uk/gate/COPYRIGHT.txt
 *
 *  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, June 1991 (in the distribution as file licence.html,
 *  and also available at http://gate.ac.uk/gate/licence.html).
 *
 *  Marin Dimitrov, 16/May/2002
 *
 *  $Id: Synset.java 17496 2014-03-01 14:20:35Z markagreenwood $
 */

package gate.wordnet;

import java.util.List;

/** Represents WordNet synset.
 */
public interface Synset {

  /** returns the part-of-speech for this synset, see WordNet::POS_XXX constants */
  public int getPOS();

  /** is this synset a UB - i.e. has no hypernym */
  public boolean isUniqueBeginner() throws WordNetException;

  /** textual description of the synset */
  public String getGloss();

  /** offset in index files */
  public long getOffset();

  /** WordSenses contained in this synset */
  public List getWordSenses();

  /** get specific WordSense according to its order in the synset - most important senses come first  */
  public WordSense getWordSense(int offset);

  /** get the SemanticRelation-s of this synset */
  public List getSemanticRelations() throws WordNetException;

  /** get the SemanticRelation-s of specific type (HYPERNYm) for this synset */
  public List getSemanticRelations(int type) throws WordNetException;

}