org.eml.sir.rel
Class LinComparator

java.lang.Object
  org.eml.sir.rel.WordRelatednessComparator
      org.eml.sir.rel.PathBasedComparator
          org.eml.sir.rel.InformationBasedComparator
              org.eml.sir.rel.LinComparator

public class LinComparator

extends InformationBasedComparator

Computes the distance based on the proposal by Jiang & Conrath (1997).

Author:

Hendrik Niederlich (EML-R)

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.eml.sir.rel.WordRelatednessComparator

noResultValue

Constructor Summary

LinComparator()
Create a new instance of LinComparator.

LinComparator(StemmingGermaNetObject sgno)
Create a new instance of LinComparator.

Method Summary

double	getRelatedness(java.util.ArrayList word1, java.util.ArrayList word2, java.util.HashMap tableMap) Return a relatedness value ESPECIALLY FOR LC_COMPARATOR!.
double	getRelatedness(java.lang.String word1, java.lang.String word2) Return a relatedness value.
java.lang.String[]	getRelatednessTrace(java.lang.String word1, java.lang.String word2) Return a trace that illustrates the relatedness computation.

Methods inherited from class org.eml.sir.rel.InformationBasedComparator

getInformationContentMap, setInformationContentMap

Methods inherited from class org.eml.sir.rel.PathBasedComparator

getLCSs, getMaxDepth, getMinPathLength, getMinPathLength, getPathsToRoot

Methods inherited from class org.eml.sir.rel.WordRelatednessComparator

getGermaNetObject, setGermaNetObject

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

LinComparator

public LinComparator()

Create a new instance of LinComparator.

LinComparator

public LinComparator(StemmingGermaNetObject sgno)

Create a new instance of LinComparator.

Method Detail

getRelatedness

public double getRelatedness(java.util.ArrayList word1,
                             java.util.ArrayList word2,
                             java.util.HashMap tableMap)

Description copied from class: WordRelatednessComparator

Return a relatedness value ESPECIALLY FOR LC_COMPARATOR!.

Specified by:

getRelatedness in class WordRelatednessComparator

Returns:

A positive value that indicates the relatedness of two words. If one or both word have more than one sense the value that indicates the highest similarity is returned. If no relatedness value can be computed return 0.

getRelatedness

public double getRelatedness(java.lang.String word1,
                             java.lang.String word2)

Return a relatedness value.

Specified by:

getRelatedness in class WordRelatednessComparator

Returns:

A positive value that indicates the relatedness of two words.

See Also:

WordRelatednessComparator.getRelatedness(java.lang.String, java.lang.String)

getRelatednessTrace

public java.lang.String[] getRelatednessTrace(java.lang.String word1,
                                              java.lang.String word2)

Return a trace that illustrates the relatedness computation.

Specified by:

getRelatednessTrace in class WordRelatednessComparator

See Also:

WordRelatednessComparator.getRelatednessTrace(java.lang.String, java.lang.String)