edu.cmu.minorthird.classify
Interface Classifier

All Known Implementing Classes:

BalancedWinnow.MyClassifier, BinaryClassifier, CollinsPerceptronLearner.MultiClassVPClassifier, GenericCollinsLearnerV1.MultiClassClassifier, Hyperplane, KernelVotedPerceptron.MyClassifier, MaxEntLearner.MyClassifier, MultiClassifier, MultinomialClassifier, MultinomialClassifier, NegativeBinomialClassifier, OneVsAllClassifier, PositiveScoresTransformClassifier, RandomForests.VotingClassifier, RegretWinnow.MyClassifier, SequenceUtils.MultiClassClassifier, StackedGraphicalLearner.StackedGraphicalClassifier, SVMClassifier, TransformingClassifier, TransformingMultiClassifier, TweakedLearner.TweakedClassifier, VitorBalancedWinnow.MyClassifier, Winnow.MyClassifier

public interface Classifier

Interface for a classifier. This is specialized to BinaryClassifier and KWayClassifier.

Author:

William Cohen

Method Summary

ClassLabel	classification(Instance instance) Return a predicted type for the span, as a class label.
java.lang.String	explain(Instance instance) Return some string that 'explains' the classification
Explanation	getExplanation(Instance instance) Return an Explanation for the classification

Method Detail

classification

ClassLabel classification(Instance instance)

Return a predicted type for the span, as a class label.

explain

java.lang.String explain(Instance instance)

Return some string that 'explains' the classification

getExplanation

Explanation getExplanation(Instance instance)

Return an Explanation for the classification