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+/* LanguageTool, a natural language style checker 
+ * Copyright (C) 2005 Daniel Naber (http://www.danielnaber.de)
+ * 
+ * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+ * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+ * Lesser General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ * License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301
+ * USA
+ */
+package de.danielnaber.languagetool.tokenizers;
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+/**
+ * Interface for classes that tokenize text into smaller units.
+ * 
+ * @author Daniel Naber
+ */
+public interface Tokenizer {
+
+  public abstract List<String> tokenize(String text);
+  
+}