uk.ac.gla.dcs.renaissance.ir.rf
Interface RelevanceFeedbackMethod

All Known Implementing Classes:

BlindRelevanceFeedback, ConstantRelevanceFeedback, TopRelevanceFeedback

public interface RelevanceFeedbackMethod

Given a set of retrieved documents, returns a set of judged documents to be used for feedback

Author:

B. Piwowarski

Method Summary

void	init() Initialise
boolean	isConstant() Returns true if the RF does not depend on a list of results
<T extends Document> Collection<bpiwowar.utils.Pair<T,Float>>	process(String topicid, List<T> retrieved, DocumentFactory<T> factory) Return the list of documents to be used for RF

Method Detail

isConstant

boolean isConstant()

Returns true if the RF does not depend on a list of results

process

<T extends Document> Collection<bpiwowar.utils.Pair<T,Float>> process(String topicid,
                                                                      List<T> retrieved,
                                                                      DocumentFactory<T> factory)

Return the list of documents to be used for RF

init

void init()
          throws Exception

Initialise

Throws:

Exception