JLanguageTool/src/java/de/danielnaber/languagetool/tokenizers/Tokenizer.java


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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);
  
}