CharSequenceNormalizer (Apache OpenNLP Tools 2.1.0 API)

All Superinterfaces:

Serializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

AggregateCharSequenceNormalizer, EmojiCharSequenceNormalizer, NumberCharSequenceNormalizer, ShrinkCharSequenceNormalizer, TwitterCharSequenceNormalizer, UrlCharSequenceNormalizer
```
public interface CharSequenceNormalizer
extends Serializable
```
A char sequence normalizer, used to adjusting (prune, substitute, add, etc.) characters in order to remove noise from text

See Also:

Text normalization

- Method Summary
  
  All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
  Modifier and Type Method Description
  
  CharSequence normalize(CharSequence text)
  normalize a sequence of characters

- Method Detail
  - normalize
```
CharSequence normalize(CharSequence text)
```
    normalize a sequence of characters
    
    Parameters:
    
    text - the char sequence to normalize
    
    Returns:
    
    the normalized char sequence