Package com.yahoo.language

Class LinguisticsCase

java.lang.Object

com.yahoo.language.LinguisticsCase

public class LinguisticsCase
extends Object

This class provides a case normalization operation to be used e.g. when document search should be case insensitive.

Author:

Simon Thoresen Hult

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
LinguisticsCase()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static String	toLowerCase(String in)	The lower casing method to use in Vespa when doing language independent processing of natural language data.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

LinguisticsCase

public LinguisticsCase()

Method Details

toLowerCase

public static String toLowerCase(String in)

The lower casing method to use in Vespa when doing language independent processing of natural language data. It is placed in a single place to ensure symmetry between e.g. query processing and indexing. Return a lowercased version of the given string. Since this is language independent, this is more of a case normalization operation than lowercasing.

Parameters:

in - the string to lowercase

Returns:

a string containing only lowercase characters