gov.sandia.cognition.text.term.filter

Class LowerCaseTermFilter

java.lang.Object

gov.sandia.cognition.util.AbstractCloneableSerializable

gov.sandia.cognition.text.term.filter.AbstractSingleTermFilter

gov.sandia.cognition.text.term.filter.LowerCaseTermFilter

All Implemented Interfaces:

SingleTermFilter, TermFilter, CloneableSerializable, java.io.Serializable, java.lang.Cloneable

public class LowerCaseTermFilter
extends AbstractSingleTermFilter

A term filter that converts all terms to lower case.

Since:

3.0

Author:

Justin Basilico

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
LowerCaseTermFilter() Creates a new LowerCaseTermFilter.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
TermOccurrence	filterTerm(TermOccurrence occurrence) Takes a single term occurrence and filters that occurrence into a new occurrence or returns null, indicating that the filter rejects that term.

Methods inherited from class gov.sandia.cognition.text.term.filter.AbstractSingleTermFilter

filterTerms

Methods inherited from class gov.sandia.cognition.util.AbstractCloneableSerializable

clone

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface gov.sandia.cognition.util.CloneableSerializable

clone

Constructor Detail

LowerCaseTermFilter

public LowerCaseTermFilter()

Creates a new LowerCaseTermFilter.

Method Detail

filterTerm

public TermOccurrence filterTerm(TermOccurrence occurrence)

Description copied from interface: SingleTermFilter

Takes a single term occurrence and filters that occurrence into a new occurrence or returns null, indicating that the filter rejects that term.

Parameters:

occurrence - The term occurrence to filter.

Returns:

A term occurrence (may be a new instance or the same as the given one) of the term to replace the given one or null to indicate that the filter has rejected the given term.