TextNormalizer (com.gengoai:hermes 1.1-SNAPSHOT API)

java.lang.Object
- com.gengoai.hermes.preprocessing.TextNormalizer

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable

Direct Known Subclasses:

DiacriticalMarkNormalizer, HtmlEntityNormalizer, TraditionalToSimplified, UnicodeNormalizer, WhitespaceNormalizer
```
public abstract class TextNormalizer
extends Object
implements Serializable
```
Defines a methodology for normalizing a string.

Author:

David B. Bracewell

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

Constructors
Constructor Description

TextNormalizer()

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods Concrete Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`String`	`apply(String input, Language inputLanguage)`	Performs a pre-processing operation on the input string in the given input language
`protected abstract String`	`performNormalization(String input, Language language)`	Performs a pre-processing operation on the input string in the given input language

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

- Constructor Detail
  - TextNormalizer
```
public TextNormalizer()
```
- Method Detail
  - apply
```
public final String apply(String input,
                          Language inputLanguage)
```
    Performs a pre-processing operation on the input string in the given input language
    
    Parameters:
    
    input - The input text
    
    inputLanguage - The language of the input
    
    Returns:
    
    The post-processed text
  - performNormalization
```
protected abstract String performNormalization(String input,
                                               Language language)
```
    Performs a pre-processing operation on the input string in the given input language
    
    Parameters:
    
    input - The input text
    
    language - The language of the input
    
    Returns:
    
    The post-processed text