TermScoreModifier (Terrier Information Retrieval Platform 5.5 API)

All Superinterfaces:

java.lang.Cloneable
```
public interface TermScoreModifier
extends java.lang.Cloneable
```
Deprecated.
Use WeightingModel instead.

The interface that should be implemented by each class that assigns or modifies a score of a term for a document.

Author:

Vassilis Plachouras, Craig Macdonald

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods Deprecated Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`java.lang.Object`	`clone()`	Deprecated. Return a clone of this object (deep copy).
`java.lang.String`	`getName()`	Deprecated. Returns the name of the modifier.
`int`	`hashCode()`	Deprecated. Returns a hash code of this object
`int`	`modifyScores(double[] termScores, int[][] pointers)`	Deprecated. Modifies the scores of the documents for a given set of pointers, or postings.

- Method Detail
  - modifyScores
```
int modifyScores(double[] termScores,
                 int[][] pointers)
```
    Deprecated.
    
    Modifies the scores of the documents for a given set of pointers, or postings.
    
    Parameters:
    
    termScores - double[] the scores of the documents.
    
    pointers - int[][] the vectors that contain the pointers, that is pairs of document identifiers and term frequencies.
    
    Returns:
    
    the number of documents for which the scores were modified.
  - getName
```
java.lang.String getName()
```
    Deprecated.
    
    Returns the name of the modifier.
    
    Returns:
    
    String the name of the modifier.
  - clone
```
java.lang.Object clone()
```
    Deprecated.
    
    Return a clone of this object (deep copy).
  - hashCode
```
int hashCode()
```
    Deprecated.
    
    Returns a hash code of this object
    
    Overrides:
    
    hashCode in class java.lang.Object