edu.ucla.sspace.dependency

Interface DependencyPathWeight

All Known Implementing Classes:

FlatPathWeight, LengthPathWeight, RelationPathWeight, RelationSumPathWeight

public interface DependencyPathWeight

An interface for weighting, or scoring, dependency paths. Implementations are suggested to be thread-safe and stateless .

Author:

Keith Stevens

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
double	scorePath(DependencyPath path) Returns the score of the provided DependencyPath.

Method Detail

scorePath

double scorePath(DependencyPath path)

Returns the score of the provided DependencyPath. The score may be a function of the length of the path, arbitrary, e.g., 1 for all paths, or may be a function of the relations and terms in the path.

Parameters:

path - A list of the term,relation links in the DependencyPath being scored

Returns:

The score of the dependecy path