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diff --git a/linguistics/src/main/java/com/yahoo/language/process/Transformer.java b/linguistics/src/main/java/com/yahoo/language/process/Transformer.java new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..4d288aafaca --- /dev/null +++ b/linguistics/src/main/java/com/yahoo/language/process/Transformer.java @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +// Copyright 2016 Yahoo Inc. Licensed under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license. See LICENSE in the project root. +package com.yahoo.language.process; + +import com.yahoo.language.Language; + +/** + * Interface for providers of text transformations such as accent removal. + * + * @author <a href="mailto:mathiasm@yahoo-inc.com">Mathias Mølster Lidal</a> + */ +public interface Transformer { + + /** + * Remove accents from input text. + * + * @param input text to transform. + * @param language language of input text. + * @return text with accents removed, or input-text if the feature is unavailable + * @throws ProcessingException thrown if there is an exception stemming this input + */ + String accentDrop(String input, Language language); + +} |