1 /* 2 * Copyright (C) 2004-2006 Christian Siefkes <christian@siefkes.net>. 3 * Development of this software is supported by the German Research Society, 4 * Berlin-Brandenburg Graduate School in Distributed Information Systems 5 * (DFG grant no. GRK 316). 6 * 7 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 8 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 9 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or 10 * (at your option) any later version. 11 * 12 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 13 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 14 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 15 * GNU General Public License for more details. 16 * 17 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 18 * along with this program; if not, visit 19 * http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html or write to the Free Software 20 * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA 21 */ 22 package de.fu_berlin.ties.context; 23 24 /*** 25 * A recognition has a type (class) and contains text. 26 * 27 * @author Christian Siefkes 28 * @version $Revision: 1.4 $, $Date: 2006/10/21 16:04:03 $, $Author: siefkes $ 29 */ 30 public interface Recognition { 31 32 /*** 33 * Returns the type (class) of the recognition. 34 * @return the type (class) 35 */ 36 String getType(); 37 38 /*** 39 * Returns the recognized text fragment. 40 * @return the recognized text 41 */ 42 String getText(); 43 44 /*** 45 * Whether this recognition has been sealed. The text of a sealed 46 * recognition is stable and cannot be changed. 47 * 48 * @return <code>true</code> iff this recognition is sealed 49 */ 50 boolean isSealed(); 51 52 }