uk.ac.gla.terrier.terms
Interface TermPipeline

All Known Implementing Classes:

CropTerm, DanishSnowballStemmer, DumpTerm, DutchSnowballStemmer, EnglishSnowballStemmer, FinnishSnowballStemmer, FrenchSnowballStemmer, GermanSnowballStemmer, HungarianSnowballStemmer, ItalianSnowballStemmer, Manager, NoOp, NorwegianSnowballStemmer, PorterStemmer, PortugueseSnowballStemmer, RomanianSnowballStemmer, RussianSnowballStemmer, SkipTermPipeline, SnowballStemmer, SpanishSnowballStemmer, Stopwords, SwedishSnowballStemmer, TurkishSnowballStemmer, WeakPorterStemmer

public interface TermPipeline

Models the concept of a component in a pipeline of term processors. Classes that implement this interface could be stemming algorithms, stopwords removers, or acronym expanders just to mention few examples.

Version:

$Revision: 1.9 $

Author:

Craig Macdonald

Method Summary

void	processTerm(java.lang.String t) Processes a term using the current term pipeline component and passes the output to the next pipeline component, if the term has not been discarded.

Method Detail

processTerm

void processTerm(java.lang.String t)

Processes a term using the current term pipeline component and passes the output to the next pipeline component, if the term has not been discarded.

Parameters:

t - String the term to process.