ScoreProvider.java

/*
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 * Portions Copyright 2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  
 * Portions Copyright 2002 Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories.
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package edu.cmu.sphinx.decoder.scorer;

import edu.cmu.sphinx.frontend.Data;

/** Thing that can provide the score */
public interface ScoreProvider {

    /**
     * Provides the score
     *
     * @param data data to score
     * @return the score
     */
    public float getScore(Data data);

    /**
     * Provides component score
     *
     * @param feature data to score
     * @return the score
     */
     public float[] getComponentScore(Data feature);
}