edu.udo.cs.wvtool.generic.stemmer
Interface WVTStemmer

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractStemmer, AbstractWordNetStemmer, DictionaryStemmer, DummyStemmer, LovinsStemmerWrapper, PorterStemmerWrapper, SnowballStemmerWrapper, ToLowerCaseConverter, WordNetHypernymStemmer, WordNetSynonymStemmer

public interface WVTStemmer

This interface represents a mechanism to convert a stream of tokens to a stream of word stems.

Version:

$Id: WVTStemmer.java,v 1.2 2006/06/06 11:45:23 mjwurst Exp $

Author:

Michael Wurst

Method Summary

TokenEnumeration

stem(TokenEnumeration source, WVTDocumentInfo d) Convert a list of tokens to a list of stems.

Method Detail

stem

TokenEnumeration stem(TokenEnumeration source,
                      WVTDocumentInfo d)
                      throws WVToolException

Convert a list of tokens to a list of stems.

Parameters:

source - the original stream of tokens

d - the WVTDocumentInfo value that describes the document being processed

Returns:

the resulting stream of tokens

Throws:

java.lang.Exception - if an error occurs

WVToolException