edu.ucla.sspace.hal

Class EvenWeighting

java.lang.Object

edu.ucla.sspace.hal.EvenWeighting

All Implemented Interfaces:

WeightingFunction

public class EvenWeighting
extends Object
implements WeightingFunction

An weighting scheme where all words have the same weight when specifying how a HyperspaceAnalogueToLanguage instance should weigh co-occurrences based on the word distance.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
EvenWeighting()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
double	weight(int positionOffset, int windowSize) Returns a constant value for the weight regardless of distance

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

EvenWeighting

public EvenWeighting()

Method Detail

weight

public double weight(int positionOffset,
            int windowSize)

Returns a constant value for the weight regardless of distance

Specified by:

weight in interface WeightingFunction

Parameters:

positionOffset - the location of the word relative to the current position

windowSize - the maximum nubmer of words on one side that will be considered for weighting

Returns:

the weight to apply