edu.washington.cs.knowitall.normalization
Interface FieldNormalizer

All Known Implementing Classes:

ArgumentNormalizer, BasicFieldNormalizer, HeadNounNormalizer, VerbalRelationNormalizer

public interface FieldNormalizer

An interface defining the basic functionality of a field normalizer. A field normalizer is a function that takes a ChunkedExtraction object and returns a NormalizedField object. An example of this function would be a stemmer.

Author:

afader

Method Summary

NormalizedField

normalizeField(ChunkedExtraction field)

Method Detail

normalizeField

NormalizedField normalizeField(ChunkedExtraction field)

Parameters:

field -

Returns:

a normalized version of the given field