/**
* Copyright 2014 Marco Cornolti
*
* 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
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*/
package it.acubelab.smaph.boldfilters;
import it.unipi.di.acube.batframework.utils.Pair;
import java.util.List;
/**
* An interface to a bold filter.
*/
public interface BoldFilter {
/**
* @param query the query.
* @param spotAndRank a list of pairs <b,r>, meaning bold b appeared in result ranked r.
* @param resultsCount the number of results returned by the search engine.
* @return the list of bolds that should be kept.
* */
public List<String> filterBolds(String query, List<Pair<String, Integer>> spotAndRank, int resultsCount);
}