org.dkpro.statistics.agreement.distance

Class SetAnnotationDistanceFunction

java.lang.Object

org.dkpro.statistics.agreement.distance.SetAnnotationDistanceFunction

All Implemented Interfaces:

IDistanceFunction

public class SetAnnotationDistanceFunction
extends Object
implements IDistanceFunction

Distance function for set-valued annotation studies based on the definition of partial matching (Passonneau, 2004). The distance function assumes categories of type SetAnnotation.

References:

• Passonneau, R.J.: Computing reliability for coreference annotation. In: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, p. 1503–1506, 2004.

Author:

Christian M. Meyer

See Also:

IDistanceFunction, SetAnnotation, MASISetAnnotationDistanceFunction

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
SetAnnotationDistanceFunction()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
double	measureDistance(IAnnotationStudy study, Object category1, Object category2) Returns a distance value for the given pair of categories used within the given annotation study.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

SetAnnotationDistanceFunction

public SetAnnotationDistanceFunction()

Method Detail

measureDistance

public double measureDistance(IAnnotationStudy study,
                              Object category1,
                              Object category2)

Description copied from interface: IDistanceFunction

Returns a distance value for the given pair of categories used within the given annotation study. Normally, the measure should return a distance of 0 if, and only if, the two categories are equal and a positive number otherwise.

Specified by:

measureDistance in interface IDistanceFunction