de.tuebingen.uni.sfs.germanet.relatedness
Class RelatednessResult

java.lang.Object
  de.tuebingen.uni.sfs.germanet.relatedness.RelatednessResult

public class RelatednessResult
extends java.lang.Object

Represents the result of a relatedness mesaure (class Relatedness). Contains the name of the measure and the result and can calculate the normalized result (mapping into [0,1]).

Constructor Summary

RelatednessResult(java.lang.String name, double value, java.lang.Object[] arguments)
Constructor taking name of the relatedness measure used and result value.

Method Summary

double	getNormalizedResult() Returns a mapping of the result value into [0,1], where 0 is no similarity and 1 is identity.
double	getResult() Returns the double value calculated by this relatedness measure.
java.lang.String	toString() The return String contains the name of the measure, the result value (not normalized) and the number of arguments.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

RelatednessResult

public RelatednessResult(java.lang.String name,
                         double value,
                         java.lang.Object[] arguments)

Constructor taking name of the relatedness measure used and result value.

Parameters:

name - the name of the relatedness measure used

value - the result of this relatedness measure

arguments - additional args for lesk and ics; null for path measures

Method Detail

getResult

public double getResult()

Returns the double value calculated by this relatedness measure.

Returns:

the result value of the relatedness calculation

getNormalizedResult

public double getNormalizedResult()

Returns a mapping of the result value into [0,1], where 0 is no similarity and 1 is identity.
Caution: This is not true for Resnik's measure. Identity may have a value smaller than 1 for Resnik.

Returns:

a normalized representation of the given relatedness value

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

The return String contains the name of the measure, the result value (not normalized) and the number of arguments.

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object

Returns:

a String representation of this RelatednessResult object.