TermStemmerIF.java

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package net.ontopia.topicmaps.classify;

/**
 * INTERNAL: A stemmer produces the stem of a word from a form of the
 * word. That is, "stemmer", "stemming", "stemmed", and "stem" should
 * all yield "stem".
 */
public interface TermStemmerIF {

  /**
   * INTERNAL: Return the stem of the term.
   */
  public String stem(String term);
  
}