TextNormalization (com.gengoai:hermes 1.1-SNAPSHOT API)

java.lang.Object
- com.gengoai.hermes.preprocessing.TextNormalization

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable
```
public class TextNormalization
extends Object
implements Serializable
```
Class takes care of normalizing text using a number of TextNormalizers.

Author:

David B. Bracewell

See Also:

Serialized Form

Method Summary

All Methods Static Methods Instance Methods Concrete Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`static TextNormalization`	`configuredInstance()`	Configured instance text normalization.
`static TextNormalization`	`createInstance(Collection<? extends TextNormalizer> normalizers)`	Create instance text normalization.
`List<TextNormalizer>`	`getNormalizers()`
`static TextNormalization`	`noOpInstance()`	No op instance text normalization.
`String`	`normalize(String input, Language language)`	Normalizes a string with a number of text normalizers.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

- Method Detail
  - configuredInstance
```
public static TextNormalization configuredInstance()
```
    Configured instance text normalization.
    
    Returns:
    
    A TextNormalization class configured via config files.
  - createInstance
```
public static TextNormalization createInstance(Collection<? extends TextNormalizer> normalizers)
```
    Create instance text normalization.
    
    Parameters:
    
    normalizers - the normalizers
    
    Returns:
    
    the text normalization
  - noOpInstance
```
public static TextNormalization noOpInstance()
```
    No op instance text normalization.
    
    Returns:
    
    A TextNormalization that does no normalization
  - getNormalizers
```
public List<TextNormalizer> getNormalizers()
```
  - normalize
```
public String normalize(String input,
                        Language language)
```
    Normalizes a string with a number of text normalizers.
    
    Parameters:
    
    input - The input string
    
    language - The language of the input string
    
    Returns:
    
    A normalized version of the string