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+#ifndef moses_Search_h
+#define moses_Search_h
+
+#include <vector>
+#include "TypeDef.h"
+#include "Phrase.h"
+
+namespace Moses
+{
+
+class HypothesisStack;
+class Hypothesis;
+class InputType;
+class TranslationOptionCollection;
+class Manager;
+
+/** Abstract class used in the phrase-based decoder. 
+ *  Cube pruning and normal searches are the classes that inherits from this class
+ */
+class Search
+{
+public:
+  virtual const std::vector < HypothesisStack* >& GetHypothesisStacks() const = 0;
+  virtual const Hypothesis *GetBestHypothesis() const = 0;
+  virtual void ProcessSentence() = 0;
+  Search(Manager& manager) : m_manager(manager) {}
+  virtual ~Search()
+  {}
+
+  // Factory
+  static Search *CreateSearch(Manager& manager, const InputType &source, SearchAlgorithm searchAlgorithm,
+                              const TranslationOptionCollection &transOptColl);
+
+protected:
+
+  const Phrase *m_constraint;
+  Manager& m_manager;
+
+};
+
+
+}
+#endif