edu.illinois.cs.cogcomp.llm.comparators

Class WordComparator

java.lang.Object

edu.illinois.cs.cogcomp.llm.comparators.WordComparator

All Implemented Interfaces:

edu.illinois.cs.cogcomp.mrcs.comparators.Comparator<String,edu.illinois.cs.cogcomp.mrcs.dataStructures.EntailmentResult>

public class WordComparator
extends Object
implements edu.illinois.cs.cogcomp.mrcs.comparators.Comparator<String,edu.illinois.cs.cogcomp.mrcs.dataStructures.EntailmentResult>

Word Comparator used in LLM. It can be word or NE similarity metrics

Author:

mssammon

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
protected boolean	defaultUpwardMonotone

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
WordComparator(ResourceManager rm_)
WordComparator(String configFile_)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
edu.illinois.cs.cogcomp.mrcs.dataStructures.EntailmentResult	compare(String specific_, String general_)
protected void	configure(ResourceManager rm_) reads parameters from configuration file named by m_propertiesFile loads stopwords, sets xmlrpc client if appropriate
void	SetAs_NEComparator() only used to initialize the NE comparator

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

defaultUpwardMonotone

protected boolean defaultUpwardMonotone

Constructor Detail

WordComparator

public WordComparator(String configFile_)
               throws IOException

Throws:

IOException

WordComparator

public WordComparator(ResourceManager rm_)
               throws IllegalArgumentException,
                      IOException

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException

IOException

Method Detail

SetAs_NEComparator

public void SetAs_NEComparator()
                        throws IllegalArgumentException,
                               IOException

only used to initialize the NE comparator

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException

IOException

configure

protected void configure(ResourceManager rm_)
                  throws IllegalArgumentException,
                         IOException

reads parameters from configuration file named by m_propertiesFile loads stopwords, sets xmlrpc client if appropriate

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException

IOException

compare

public edu.illinois.cs.cogcomp.mrcs.dataStructures.EntailmentResult compare(String specific_,
                                                                            String general_)

Specified by:

compare in interface edu.illinois.cs.cogcomp.mrcs.comparators.Comparator<String,edu.illinois.cs.cogcomp.mrcs.dataStructures.EntailmentResult>