IMonolingualClusteringAlgorithm.java

/*
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 * All rights reserved.
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package org.carrot2.text.clustering;

import java.util.List;

import org.carrot2.core.*;

/**
 * An internal interface of an algorithm performing clustering in one language. 
 * Implementations are <strong>not</strong> assumed to be thread-safe and will not be
 * called concurrently.
 */
public interface IMonolingualClusteringAlgorithm
{
    /**
     * Clusters <code>documents</code> assuming they are written in <code>language</code>.
     */
    public List<Cluster> process(List<Document> documents, LanguageCode language);
}