SequenceClassifier.java

package edu.cmu.minorthird.classify.sequential;

import edu.cmu.minorthird.classify.Explanation;
import edu.cmu.minorthird.classify.ClassLabel;
import edu.cmu.minorthird.classify.Instance;

/**
 * Interface for a sequence classifier.
 *
 * @author William Cohen
 */

public interface SequenceClassifier
{
    /** Return a predicted type for each element of the sequence. */
    public ClassLabel[] classification(Instance[] sequence);

    /** Return some string that 'explains' the classification */
    public String explain(Instance[] sequence);

    /** Return and explanation for a classification */
    public Explanation getExplanation(Instance[] sequence);
}