AbbreviationService.java

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package gov.nasa.arc.mct.abbreviation;

/**
 * Defines a service for finding and applying standard abbreviations for
 * words and phrases.
 */
public interface AbbreviationService {

	/**
	 * Gets the available abbreviations for a string. If no abbreviations
	 * are found, the returned available abbreviations consist of each
	 * word in the original string, in turn, with one abbreviation, the
	 * word unchanged.
	 * 
	 * @param s the string to abbreviate
	 * @return the available abbreviations
	 */
	Abbreviations getAbbreviations(String s);
	
}