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*
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package smile.sequence;
/**
* A sequence labeler assigns a class label to each position of the sequence.
*
* @author Haifeng Li
*/
public interface SequenceLabeler<T> {
/**
* Predicts the sequence labels.
* @param x a sequence. At each position, it may be the original symbol or
* a feature set about the symbol, its neighborhood, and/or other information.
* @return the predicted sequence labels.
*/
public int[] predict(T[] x);
}