edu.washington.cs.knowitall.normalization
Class ArgumentNormalizer

java.lang.Object
  edu.washington.cs.knowitall.normalization.ArgumentNormalizer

All Implemented Interfaces:

FieldNormalizer

public class ArgumentNormalizer
extends Object
implements FieldNormalizer

Normalizes ChunkedExtraction arguments by

• Lowercasing
• Removing punctuation
• Replacing numbers with a # symbol

Author:

afader

Constructor Summary

ArgumentNormalizer()

Method Summary

NormalizedField

normalizeField(ChunkedExtraction field)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

ArgumentNormalizer

public ArgumentNormalizer()

Method Detail

normalizeField

public NormalizedField normalizeField(ChunkedExtraction field)

Specified by:

normalizeField in interface FieldNormalizer

Returns:

a normalized version of the given field