package edu.stanford.nlp.trees.treebank;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Properties;
/**
* A generic interface loading, processing, and writing a data set. Classes
* that implement this interface may be specified in the configuration file
* using the <code>TYPE</code> parameter. {@link TreebankPreprocessor} will
* then call {@link #setOptions}, {@link #build} and {@link #getFilenames()}
* in that order.
*
* @author Spence Green
*
*/
public interface Dataset {
public enum Encoding {Buckwalter, UTF8}
/**
* Sets options for a dataset.
*
* @param opts A map from parameter types defined in {@link ConfigParser} to
* values
* @return true if opts contains all required options. false, otherwise.
*/
public boolean setOptions(Properties opts);
/**
* Generic method for loading, processing, and writing a dataset.
*/
public void build();
/**
* Returns the filenames written by {@link #build()}.
*
* @return A collection of filenames
*/
public List<String> getFilenames();
}