gov.sandia.cognition.text.convert

Interface MultiTextualConverter<InputType,OutputType extends Textual>

Type Parameters:

InputType - The input type to convert.

OutputType - The output textual representation.

All Superinterfaces:

DataConverter<InputType,java.lang.Iterable<OutputType>>, Evaluator<InputType,java.lang.Iterable<OutputType>>, TextualConverter<InputType,OutputType>

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractMultiTextualConverter, SingleToMultiTextualConverterAdapter

public interface MultiTextualConverter<InputType,OutputType extends Textual>
extends DataConverter<InputType,java.lang.Iterable<OutputType>>, TextualConverter<InputType,OutputType>

Interface for an TextConverter that converts an input into possibly multiple output textual objects. This is usually done to encapsulate a strategy for transforming an object so that it can be used in text analysis, such as being fed into tokenization for a term extraction pipeline.

Since:

3.1

Author:

Justin Basilico

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
java.lang.Iterable<OutputType>	convert(InputType input) Convert the input object into zero or more textual objects.

Methods inherited from interface gov.sandia.cognition.evaluator.Evaluator

evaluate

Methods inherited from interface gov.sandia.cognition.text.convert.TextualConverter

convertAll

Method Detail

convert

java.lang.Iterable<OutputType> convert(InputType input)

Convert the input object into zero or more textual objects.

Parameters:

input - The input to convert.

Returns:

Zero or more textual objects.