package edu.stanford.nlp.stats;
/**
* An interace for drawing samples from the label
* space of an object. The classifiers themselves are
* {@link Sampleable}. For instance, a parser can
* {@link Sampleable} and then vends Sampler instances
* based on specific inputs (words in the sentence).
* The Sampler would then return parse trees (over
* that particular sentence, not over all sentences)
* drawn from
* the underlying distribution.
*
* @author Jenny Finkel
*/
public interface Sampler<T> {
/**
* @return labels (of type T) drawn from the underlying
* distribution for the observation this Sampler was
* created for.
*/
public T drawSample();
}