source: branches/MetisMQI/src/main/java/weka/core/stemmers/NullStemmer.java

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/*
 * NullStemmer.java
 * Copyright (C) 2005 University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
 *
 */

package weka.core.stemmers;

import weka.core.RevisionUtils;

/**
 <!-- globalinfo-start -->
 * A dummy stemmer that performs no stemming at all.
 * <p/>
 <!-- globalinfo-end -->
 * 
 * @author    FracPete (fracpete at waikato dot ac dot nz)
 * @version   $Revision: 5953 $
 */
public class NullStemmer 
  implements Stemmer {

  /** for serialization */
  static final long serialVersionUID = -3671261636532625496L;
  
  /**
   * Returns a string describing the stemmer
   * @return a description suitable for
   *         displaying in the explorer/experimenter gui
   */
  public String globalInfo() {
    return 
        "A dummy stemmer that performs no stemming at all.";
  }
  
  /**
   * Returns the word as it is.
   *
   * @param word      the unstemmed word
   * @return          the unstemmed word, again
   */
  public String stem(String word) {
    return new String(word);
  }

  /**
   * returns a string representation of the stemmer
   * 
   * @return a string representation of the stemmer
   */
  public String toString() {
    return getClass().getName();
  }
  
  /**
   * Returns the revision string.
   * 
   * @return            the revision
   */
  public String getRevision() {
    return RevisionUtils.extract("$Revision: 5953 $");
  }

  /**
   * Runs the stemmer with the given options
   *
   * @param args      the options
   */
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    try {
      Stemming.useStemmer(new NullStemmer(), args);
    }
    catch (Exception e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
  }
}