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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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/*
 *  WordNet.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: WordNet.java 17494 2014-03-01 10:23:29Z markagreenwood $
 */

package gate.wordnet;

import java.net.URL;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;

import gate.LanguageResource;


/** Represents WordNet LKB.
 */
public interface WordNet extends LanguageResource {

  public static final int POS_ADJECTIVE  = 1001;
  public static final int POS_ADVERB     = 1002;
  public static final int POS_NOUN       = 1003;
  public static final int POS_VERB       = 1004;

  /** returns the WordNet version */
  public String getVersion();

/*  public Iterator getSynsets(); */

  /** returns all synsets for specific POS */
  public Iterator getSynsets(int pos)
    throws WordNetException;

  /** returns all unique beginners */
  public Iterator getUniqueBeginners();

  /** returns list of WordSense-s for specific lemma */
  public List lookupWord(String lemma) throws WordNetException;

  /** returns list of WordSense-s for specific lemma of the specified POS */
  public List lookupWord(String lemma, int pos) throws WordNetException;

  public void setPropertyUrl(URL _propertiesUrl);
  public URL getPropertyUrl();
}