edu.umd.cloud9.webgraph.normalizer
Class AnchorTextBasicNormalizer

java.lang.Object
  edu.umd.cloud9.webgraph.normalizer.AnchorTextBasicNormalizer

All Implemented Interfaces:

AnchorTextNormalizer

public class AnchorTextBasicNormalizer
extends Object
implements AnchorTextNormalizer

Author:

Nima Asadi

Constructor Summary

AnchorTextBasicNormalizer()

Method Summary

boolean	isStopWord(String word)
String	normalize(String anchor)
String	process(String anchor) An auxiliary method which performs any other types of normalization.
String	removeStopWords(String anchor) Removes the stop-words
String	stem(String anchor) Stemmer.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

AnchorTextBasicNormalizer

public AnchorTextBasicNormalizer()

Method Detail

isStopWord

public boolean isStopWord(String word)

normalize

public String normalize(String anchor)

Specified by:

normalize in interface AnchorTextNormalizer

Parameters:

anchor - original line of anchor text

Returns:

A line of anchor text where the anchor text is normalized (lower-case, etc.)

removeStopWords

public String removeStopWords(String anchor)

Description copied from interface: AnchorTextNormalizer

Removes the stop-words

Specified by:

removeStopWords in interface AnchorTextNormalizer

Parameters:

anchor - original line of anchor text

Returns:

A line of anchor text without the stop-words

stem

public String stem(String anchor)

Description copied from interface: AnchorTextNormalizer

Stemmer.

Specified by:

stem in interface AnchorTextNormalizer

Parameters:

anchor - original line of anchor text

Returns:

A line of anchor text where every word from the original anchor text is stemmed.

process

public String process(String anchor)

Description copied from interface: AnchorTextNormalizer

An auxiliary method which performs any other types of normalization.

Specified by:

process in interface AnchorTextNormalizer

Parameters:

anchor - original line of anchor text

Returns:

A processed line of anchor text.