Package uk.ac.gla.terrier.utility

Provides the interface and classes for the term pipeline, a set of objects that process the terms during indexing and processing of queries.

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Class Summary

ApplicationSetup	This class retrieves and provides access to all the constants and parameters for the system.
FieldScore	A class for modifying the retrieval scores of documents, according to whether the query terms appear to any of the fields, or tags specified by the property FieldTags.process.
Files	Utililty class for opening readers/writers and input/output streams to files.
HeapSort	An implementation of the heap sort algorithm as described in Cormen et al.
LookAheadReader	Implements a Reader, that encapsulates another stream, but only upto the point that a pre-defined end marker in the stream is identified.
LookAheadStream	Implements an InputStream, that encapsulates another stream, but only upto the point that a pre-defined end marker in the stream is identified.
Rounding	A class for performing the rounding of a number in various ways for various applications.
StringComparator	Compares two strings which may have fixed length fields separated with a non word character (eg a dash), and a last field which corresponds to an integer.
StringTools	This class implements useful string functions
TagSet	A class that models a set of tags to process (white list), a set of tags to skip (black list), a tag that is used as a document delimiter, and a tag the contents of which are used as a unique identifier.
TermCodes	This class is used for assigning codes to terms as we index a document collection.
TerrierTimer	This class implements a timer.

Package uk.ac.gla.terrier.utility Description

Provides the interface and classes for the term pipeline, a set of objects that process the terms during indexing and processing of queries.

This package includes classes that are used in various part of the Terrier Platform.