Stopwords.java

package maui.stopwords;

import java.io.*;

/**
 * Class that can test whether a given string is a stop word.
 * Lowercases all words before the test.
 *
 * @author Eibe Frank (eibe@cs.waikato.ac.nz)
 * @version 2.0
 */
public abstract class Stopwords implements Serializable {
  
	private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
	
	String filePath;
	
	public Stopwords(String filePath) {
		this.filePath = filePath;
	}
	
  /** 
   * Returns true if the given string is a stop word.
   */
  public abstract boolean isStopword(String str);
}