LearnableStringMetric.java

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/*
 *    LearnableStringMetric.java
 *    Copyright (C) 2003 Mikhail Bilenko
 *
 */


package weka.deduping.metrics;


import weka.core.Instances;
import java.util.ArrayList;
/**
 * An interface for learnable string metrics
 *
 * @author Mikhail Bilenko
 */

public interface LearnableStringMetric {

  /** Train a metric given a set of aligned strings
   * @param pairList the training data as a list of StringPair's
   * @returns distance between two strings
   */
  public abstract void trainMetric(ArrayList pairList) throws Exception;


}