com.aliasi.classify
Interface Classifier<E,C extends Classification>

Type Parameters:

E - the type of objects being classified

C - the type of classification returned

All Known Implementing Classes:

BernoulliClassifier, BigFeatureVectorClassifier, BigVectorClassifier, BinaryLMClassifier, DynamicLMClassifier, KnnClassifier, LMClassifier, LogisticRegressionClassifier, NaiveBayesClassifier, PerceptronClassifier, TradNaiveBayesClassifier

public interface Classifier<E,C extends Classification>

The Classifier interface specifies a single method that returns the classification of an input object. A classification is only required to provide a first-best categorization of the input. Classifiers may return subclasses of Classification that include n-best results with numerical scores of various interpretations.

Since:

LingPipe2.0

Version:

3.0

Author:

Bob Carpenter

Method Summary

C	classify(E input) Return the classification of the specified object.

Method Detail

classify

C classify(E input)

Return the classification of the specified object. Implementations may return more fine-grained results by returning a subclass of Classification.

Parameters:

input - Object to classify.

Returns:

Classification of the object.