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package org.apache.stanbol.enhancer.engines.entitylinking;
/**
* Interface used by the {@link EntityhubLinkingEngine} to tokenize labels of
* Entities suggested by the EntitySearcher
*
*/
public interface LabelTokenizer {
/**
* Key used to configure the languages supported for tokenizing labels.
* If not present the assumption is that the tokenizer supports all languages.
*/
String SUPPORTED_LANUAGES = "enhancer.engines.entitylinking.labeltokenizer.languages";
/**
* Tokenizes the parsed label in the parsed language
* @param label the label
* @param language the language of the lable or <code>null</code> if
* not known
* @return the tokenized label
*/
String[] tokenize(String label, String language);
}