uk.ac.gla.terrier.terms
Class Stopwords

java.lang.Object
  uk.ac.gla.terrier.terms.Stopwords

All Implemented Interfaces:

TermPipeline

public class Stopwords
extends java.lang.Object
implements TermPipeline

Implements stopword removal, as a TermPipeline object. Stopword list to load can be passed in the constructor or loaded from the stopwords.filename property. Note that this TermPipeline uses the system default encoding for the stopword list. Properties

• stopwords.filename - the stopword list to load. More than one stopword list can be specified, by comma-separating the filenames.
• stopwords.intern.terms - optimisation of Java for indexing: Stopwords terms are likely to appear extremely frequently in a Collection, interning them in Java will save on GC costs during indexing.
• stopwords.encoding - encoding of the file containing the stopwords, if not set defaults to trec.encoding, and if that is not set, onto the default system encoding.

Version:

$Revision: 1.24 $

Author:

Craig Macdonald

Constructor Summary

Stopwords(TermPipeline next)
Makes a new stopword termpipeline object.

Stopwords(TermPipeline next, java.lang.String StopwordsFile)
Makes a new stopword term pipeline object.

Stopwords(TermPipeline next, java.lang.String[] StopwordsFiles)
Makes a new stopword term pipeline object.

Method Summary

void	clear() Clear all stopwords from this stopword list object.
boolean	isStopword(java.lang.String t) Returns true is term t is a stopword
void	loadStopwordsList(java.lang.String stopwordsFilename) Loads the specified stopwords file.
void	loadStopwordsList(java.lang.String[] StopwordsFiles) Loads the specified stopwords files.
void	processTerm(java.lang.String t) Checks to see if term t is a stopword.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

Stopwords

public Stopwords(TermPipeline next)

Makes a new stopword termpipeline object. The stopwords file is loaded from the application setup file, under the property stopwords.filename.

Parameters:

next - TermPipeline the next component in the term pipeline.

Stopwords

public Stopwords(TermPipeline next,
                 java.lang.String StopwordsFile)

Makes a new stopword term pipeline object. The stopwords file(s) are loaded from the filename parameter. If the filename is not absolute, it is assumed to be in TERRIER_SHARE. StopwordsFile is split on \s*,\s* if a comma is found in StopwordsFile parameter.

Parameters:

next - TermPipeline the next component in the term pipeline

StopwordsFile - The filename(s) of the file to use as the stopwords list. Split on comma, and passed to the (TermPipeline,String[]) constructor.

Stopwords

public Stopwords(TermPipeline next,
                 java.lang.String[] StopwordsFiles)

Makes a new stopword term pipeline object. The stopwords file(s) are loaded from the filenames array parameter. The non-existance of any file is not enough to stop the system. If a filename is not absolute, it is is assumed to be in TERRIER_SHARE.

Parameters:

next - TermPipeline the next component in the term pipeline

StopwordsFiles - Array of filenames of stopword lists.

Since:

1.1.0

Method Detail

loadStopwordsList

public void loadStopwordsList(java.lang.String[] StopwordsFiles)

Loads the specified stopwords files. Calls loadStopwordsList(String).

Parameters:

StopwordsFiles - Array of filenames of stopword lists.

Since:

1.1.0

loadStopwordsList

public void loadStopwordsList(java.lang.String stopwordsFilename)

Loads the specified stopwords file. Used internally by Stopwords(TermPipeline, String[]). If a stopword list filename is not absolute, then ApplicationSetup.TERRIER_SHARE is appended.

Parameters:

stopwordsFilename - The filename of the file to use as the stopwords list.

clear

public void clear()

Clear all stopwords from this stopword list object.

Since:

1.1.0

isStopword

public boolean isStopword(java.lang.String t)

Returns true is term t is a stopword

processTerm

public void processTerm(java.lang.String t)

Checks to see if term t is a stopword. If so, then the TermPipeline is exited. Otherwise, the term is passed on to the next TermPipeline object. This is the TermPipeline implementation part of this object.

Specified by:

processTerm in interface TermPipeline

Parameters:

t - The term to be checked.