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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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/*
 *  WordSense.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: WordSense.java 17493 2014-03-01 09:49:01Z markagreenwood $
 */

package gate.wordnet;

import java.util.List;


/** Represents WordNet word sense.
 */
public interface WordSense {

  /** returns the Word of this WordSense */
  public Word getWord();

  /** part-of-speech for this sense (inherited from the containing synset) */
  public int getPOS();

  /** synset of this sense */
  public Synset getSynset();

  /** order of this sense relative to the word - i.e. most important senses of the same word come first */
  public int getSenseNumber();

  /** order of this sense relative to the synset- i.e. most important senses of the same synset come first */
  public int getOrderInSynset();

  /** appears in SEMCOR? */
  public boolean isSemcor();

  /** return the Lex relations this sense participates in */
  public List getLexicalRelations() throws WordNetException ;

  /** return the Lex relations (of the specified type) this sense participates in */
  public List  getLexicalRelations(int type) throws WordNetException ;

}