uk.ac.gla.terrier.matching.models
Class LemurTF_IDF

java.lang.Object
  uk.ac.gla.terrier.matching.models.WeightingModel
      uk.ac.gla.terrier.matching.models.LemurTF_IDF

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable, java.lang.Cloneable, Model

public class LemurTF_IDF
extends WeightingModel

This class implements the TF_IDF weighting model as it is implemented in Lemur. See Notes on the Lemur TFIDF model. Chenxiang Zhai, 2001.

Version:

$Revision: 1.9 $

Author:

Ben He, Gianni Amati, Vassilis Plachouras

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

LemurTF_IDF()
A default constructor.

Method Summary

java.lang.String	getInfo() Returns the name of the model.
double	score(double tf, double docLength) Uses LemurTF_IDF to compute a weight for a term in a document.
double	score(double tf, double docLength, double documentFrequency, double termFrequency, double keyFrequency) Uses LemurTF_IDF to compute a weight for a term in a document.

Methods inherited from class uk.ac.gla.terrier.matching.models.WeightingModel

clone, getParameter, setAverageDocumentLength, setDocumentFrequency, setKeyFrequency, setNumberOfDocuments, setNumberOfPointers, setNumberOfTokens, setNumberOfUniqueTerms, setParameter, setTermFrequency, stirlingPower

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

LemurTF_IDF

public LemurTF_IDF()

A default constructor. This must be followed by specifying the c value.

Method Detail

getInfo

public final java.lang.String getInfo()

Returns the name of the model.

Specified by:

getInfo in interface Model

Specified by:

getInfo in class WeightingModel

Returns:

the name of the model

score

public final double score(double tf,
                          double docLength)

Uses LemurTF_IDF to compute a weight for a term in a document.

Specified by:

score in class WeightingModel

Parameters:

tf - The term frequency in the document

docLength - the document's length

Returns:

the score assigned to a document with the given tf and docLength, and other preset parameters

score

public final double score(double tf,
                          double docLength,
                          double documentFrequency,
                          double termFrequency,
                          double keyFrequency)

Uses LemurTF_IDF to compute a weight for a term in a document.

Specified by:

score in class WeightingModel

Parameters:

tf - The term frequency in the document

docLength - the document's length

documentFrequency - The document frequency of the term

termFrequency - the term frequency in the collection

keyFrequency - the term frequency in the query

Returns:

the score assigned by the weighting model LemurTF_IDF.