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package opennlp.tools.util.normalizer;
/**
* A char sequence normalizer, used to adjusting (prune, substitute, add, etc.)
* characters in order to remove noise from text
*
* @see Text normalization
*
*/
public interface CharSequenceNormalizer {
/**
* normalize a sequence of characters
* @param text the char sequence to normalize
* @return the normalized char sequence
*/
CharSequence normalize(CharSequence text);
}