org.terrier.matching.dsms

Class SimpleStaticScoreModifier

java.lang.Object

org.terrier.matching.dsms.SimpleStaticScoreModifier

All Implemented Interfaces:

Cloneable, DocumentScoreModifier

public class SimpleStaticScoreModifier
extends Object
implements DocumentScoreModifier

Provides a way to integrate a static (query independent) document (prior) feature into the document scores. The feature scores are loaded from a file. The filename is specified by the property ssa.input.file. It can take several forms, as specified by the property ssa.input.type:

1. "oos" (default) - an ObjectInputStream array of doubles, floats or shorts.
2. "docno2score" - a text file with format "docno value\n"
3. "docno2score_seq" - a text file with format "docno value\n", where docno is sorted in the same order as the docno fields in the MetaIndex.
4. "listofscores" - a text file with format "value\n", for each document.

The static feature score is added to the document score as score(d) += w*prior(d). w is controlled by the property ssa.w.

Properties:

• ssa.input.file - input file
• ssa.input.type - type of input file - one of "oos", "docno2score", "docno2score_seq", "listofscores". Default is oos.
• ssa.modified.length - how much of the top-ranked documents to alter. 0 means all documents, defaults to 1000.
• ssa.w - combination weight of the feature.
• ssa.normalise - if defined, available options are "mean1" or "maxmin". Default is no normalisation.

Since:

3.0

Author:

Craig Macdonald, Vassilis Plachouras

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
protected org.apache.log4j.Logger	logger
protected int	modifiedLength The number of top-ranked documents for which the scores will be modified.
protected double[]	staticScores The array that contains the statically computed scores.
protected double	w weight for this feature

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
SimpleStaticScoreModifier() Constructs an instance of SimpleStaticScoreModifier.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
protected static double[]	castToDoubleArr(float[] f)
protected static double[]	castToDoubleArr(short[] f)
Object	clone() Creates the close of this object
String	getName() Returns the name of the document score modifier.
void	init(Index index) init
protected void	initialise_parameters()
protected void	loadDocno2score_seq(Index index)
protected void	loadDocno2score(Index index)
protected void	loadOOS()
protected void	loadScorefile(Index index)
protected static void	makeAverage1(double[] ar)
protected static void	makeMaxMin(double[] staticScores2)
boolean	modifyScores(Index index, MatchingQueryTerms queryTerms, ResultSet set) Modifies the scores of the documents for a given query.
protected static void	negate(double[] staticScores2)
protected void	normalise(double[] scores)
protected static void	printStats(double[] ar)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

logger

protected org.apache.log4j.Logger logger

modifiedLength

protected int modifiedLength

The number of top-ranked documents for which the scores will be modified.

w

protected double w

weight for this feature

staticScores

protected double[] staticScores

The array that contains the statically computed scores.

Constructor Detail

SimpleStaticScoreModifier

public SimpleStaticScoreModifier()

Constructs an instance of SimpleStaticScoreModifier.

Method Detail

makeAverage1

protected static void makeAverage1(double[] ar)

init

public void init(Index index)

init

Parameters:

index -

normalise

protected void normalise(double[] scores)

loadScorefile

protected void loadScorefile(Index index)

loadOOS

protected void loadOOS()

makeMaxMin

protected static void makeMaxMin(double[] staticScores2)

loadDocno2score_seq

protected void loadDocno2score_seq(Index index)

loadDocno2score

protected void loadDocno2score(Index index)

negate

protected static void negate(double[] staticScores2)

printStats

protected static void printStats(double[] ar)

castToDoubleArr

protected static double[] castToDoubleArr(float[] f)

castToDoubleArr

protected static double[] castToDoubleArr(short[] f)

initialise_parameters

protected void initialise_parameters()

modifyScores

public boolean modifyScores(Index index,
                   MatchingQueryTerms queryTerms,
                   ResultSet set)

Modifies the scores of the documents for a given query. This returns a boolean that allows the Matching class to determine if the scores of the documents have actually been altered. This is because the resultset has to be resorted after each one.

Specified by:

modifyScores in interface DocumentScoreModifier

Parameters:

index - Index the data structures used for retrieval.

queryTerms - TermTreeNodes[] the query terms

set - ResultSet the current set of results.

Returns:

true if any scores have been altered

getName

public String getName()

Returns the name of the document score modifier.

Specified by:

getName in interface DocumentScoreModifier

Returns:

String the name of the document score modifier.

clone

public Object clone()

Creates the close of this object

Specified by:

clone in interface DocumentScoreModifier

Overrides:

clone in class Object