edu.illinois.cs.cogcomp.sim

Interface Metric<T>

All Known Implementing Classes:

LLMStringSim, NESim, Paraphrase, StringMetric, WNSim, WordSim

public interface Metric<T>

Generic Interface to be used by classes corresponding to various types of similarity measures.

Author:

mssammon, ngupta18, sgupta96

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
MetricResponse	compare(T arg1, T arg2) Intended to calculate similarity between two things -- generally, elements from text.

Method Detail

compare

MetricResponse compare(T arg1,
                       T arg2)
                throws IllegalArgumentException

Intended to calculate similarity between two things -- generally, elements from text.

Parameters:

arg1 - 1st component

arg2 - 2nd component

Returns:

similarity score

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException