edu.umd.cloud9.webgraph.normalizer
Interface AnchorTextNormalizer

All Known Implementing Classes:

AnchorTextBasicNormalizer

public interface AnchorTextNormalizer

An interface for normalizing lines of anchor text. A Normalizer consists of an stemming, removing the stop-word, and other processes that lines of anchor text would need to go through, such as converting to lower case, etc.

Author:

Nima Asadi

Method Summary

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.

Method Detail

stem

String stem(String anchor)

Stemmer.

Parameters:

anchor - original line of anchor text

Returns:

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

normalize

String normalize(String anchor)

Parameters:

anchor - original line of anchor text

Returns:

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

removeStopWords

String removeStopWords(String anchor)

Removes the stop-words

Parameters:

anchor - original line of anchor text

Returns:

A line of anchor text without the stop-words

process

String process(String anchor)

An auxiliary method which performs any other types of normalization.

Parameters:

anchor - original line of anchor text

Returns:

A processed line of anchor text.