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package ivory.ptc.judgments.extractor;
import ivory.ptc.data.AnchorTextTarget;
import ivory.ptc.data.PseudoJudgments;
import tl.lin.data.array.ArrayListWritable;
/**
* A pseudo judgment extractor interface.
*
* @author Nima Asadi
*/
public interface PseudoJudgmentExtractor {
/**
* Sets the parameters of the judgment extractor.
*
* @param params Array of string representation of the parameters.
*/
public void setParameters(String[] params);
/**
* Extracts pseudo judgments from the list of given target documents,
* according to the extraction criteria.
*
* @param anchorTextTargets Set of target documents from which pseudo
* judgments are extracted. The input list of documents must be sorted
* based on their relevence scores.
* @return set of pseudo judgments extracted according to the extraction
* criteria.
*/
public PseudoJudgments getPseudoJudgments(ArrayListWritable<AnchorTextTarget> anchorTextTargets);
}