/**
* Copyright (C) 2001-3, Anthony Harrison anh23@pitt.edu This library is free
* software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
* Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation;
* either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
* This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
* ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
* FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more
* details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
* License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
*/
package org.jactr.core.utils.similarity;
/**
* code for computing the similarity between two chunks.. They should implement
* a caching mechanism so that hard coded similarities will nto be overwritten.
*
* @author harrison
* @created April 18, 2003
*/
public interface SimilarityHandler
{
/**
* can this handler compute a similarity for these two chunks
*
* @param one
* Description of the Parameter
* @param two
* Description of the Parameter
* @return true if it can compute the sim
*/
public boolean handles(Object one, Object two);
/**
* compute the similarty between one and two scaled to fit maxDiff and maxSim
*
* @param one
* Description of the Parameter
* @param two
* Description of the Parameter
* @param maxDiff
* Description of the Parameter
* @param maxSim
* Description of the Parameter
* @return Description of the Return Value
*/
public double computeSimilarity(Object one, Object two, double maxDiff,
double maxSim);
}