ContentFusion.java

/**
 * Copyright (C) 2013 Christian Kohlschütter (ckkohl79@gmail.com)
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */
package de.l3s.boilerpipe.filters.heuristics;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.ListIterator;

import de.l3s.boilerpipe.BoilerpipeFilter;
import de.l3s.boilerpipe.BoilerpipeProcessingException;
import de.l3s.boilerpipe.document.TextBlock;
import de.l3s.boilerpipe.document.TextDocument;
import de.l3s.boilerpipe.labels.DefaultLabels;

public final class ContentFusion implements BoilerpipeFilter {

	public static final ContentFusion INSTANCE = new ContentFusion();

	/**
	 * Creates a new {@link de.l3s.boilerpipe.filters.heuristics.ContentFusion} instance.
	 * 
	 */
	public ContentFusion() {
	}

	public boolean process(TextDocument doc)
			throws BoilerpipeProcessingException {
		List<TextBlock> textBlocks = doc.getTextBlocks();
		if (textBlocks.size() < 2) {
			return false;
		}

		TextBlock prevBlock = textBlocks.get(0);

		boolean changes = false;
		do {
			changes = false;
			for (ListIterator<TextBlock> it = textBlocks.listIterator(1); it
					.hasNext();) {
				TextBlock block = it.next();

				if (prevBlock.isContent()
						&& block.getLinkDensity() < 0.56
						&& !block.hasLabel(DefaultLabels.STRICTLY_NOT_CONTENT)) {
					
					prevBlock.mergeNext(block);
					it.remove();
					changes = true;
				} else {
					prevBlock = block;
				}
			}
		} while (changes);

		return true;
	}

}