textmaven.stemmer
Interface IStemmer

All Known Implementing Classes:

SnowballProgram, Stemmer_en

public interface IStemmer

Normalizes / reduces words to its stem. To be able to work an instance uses an IDictionary instance.

Author:

Thomas Krebs

Method Summary

boolean	getGreedy() Returns the greedy mode flag.
java.lang.String	getLanguage()
java.util.Vector	getStem(IDictionary source, java.lang.String word) Tries to normalize word to its stem form.
void	setGreedy(boolean flag) Sets the greedy mode flag (@see IStemmer#getGreedy()).
void	setLanguage(java.lang.String id)

Method Detail

getStem

public java.util.Vector getStem(IDictionary source,
                                java.lang.String word)

Tries to normalize word to its stem form.

Parameters:

source - source to use for normalizing

word - to be normalized

Returns:

Vector holding translations for normalized word.

getGreedy

public boolean getGreedy()

Returns the greedy mode flag. In greedy mode normalization will continue searching for stems even if a word matched already.

Returns:

boolean

setGreedy

public void setGreedy(boolean flag)

Sets the greedy mode flag (@see IStemmer#getGreedy()).

Parameters:

flag - if true greedy mode is enabled.

setLanguage

public void setLanguage(java.lang.String id)

getLanguage

public java.lang.String getLanguage()