lempinen.neatseeker.core
Class StopWordList

java.lang.Object
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public class StopWordList

extends java.lang.Object

Class for reading and querying a stopword list.

The StopWordList class reads in a text file specified in the constructor argument, parses the file using StreamTokenizer and constructs a TreeMap that holds the stopword list.

The class provides a single method for determining whether a word is on a stopword list or not.

Version:

$Id: StopWordList.java,v 1.1 2000/09/23 11:21:23 lempinen Exp $

Author:

Sami Lempinen

Field Summary

protected java.util.TreeMap

stopwords The TreeMap that holds the stopword list.

Constructor Summary

StopWordList(java.lang.String textfile)
Creates a new StopWordList, based on the list in textfile.

Method Summary

boolean

isStopWord(java.lang.String word) Returns true if word is on the stopword list.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

stopwords

protected java.util.TreeMap stopwords

The TreeMap that holds the stopword list.

Constructor Detail

StopWordList

public StopWordList(java.lang.String textfile)
             throws java.io.IOException

Creates a new StopWordList, based on the list in textfile.

Method Detail

isStopWord

public boolean isStopWord(java.lang.String word)

Returns true if word is on the stopword list.