edu.columbia.cs.ref.tool.preprocessor
Interface Preprocessor

All Known Implementing Classes:

CompositeSequentialPreprocessor, HTMLContentKeeper

public interface Preprocessor

The Interface Preprocessor. The classes that implement Preprocessor transform the content of the text into the format that corresponds to the input of the RE programs.

Since:

2011-09-27

Version:

0.1

Author:

Pablo Barrio, Goncalo Simoes

Method Summary

java.lang.String

process(java.lang.String content) This method is responsible for processing the content of a document and returns a transformed String that corresponds to a transformed version of the input content

Method Detail

process

java.lang.String process(java.lang.String content)

This method is responsible for processing the content of a document and returns a transformed String that corresponds to a transformed version of the input content

Parameters:

content - the content of document represented as a String

Returns:

the transformed version of the input content