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

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
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.