opennlp-similarity/src/main/java/opennlp/tools/similarity/apps/utils/StringCleaner.java

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package opennlp.tools.similarity.apps.utils;

public class StringCleaner {
  public static String processSnapshotForMatching(String snapshot) {
    snapshot = snapshot.replace("<b>...</b>", ". ").replace("<b>", "")
        .replace("</b>", "").replace(". . ", " ").replace(" . . . ", " ")
        .replace("...", " ").replace(",..", " ").replace("&amp;", " ")
        .replace('\"', ' ').replace("  ", " ");
    snapshot = snapshot.replace('\'', ' ').replace('-', ' ');

    return snapshot;
  }
}