/* Copyright (C) 2003 Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, Computer Science Dept.
This file is part of "MALLET" (MAchine Learning for LanguagE Toolkit).
http://www.cs.umass.edu/~mccallum/mallet
This software is provided under the terms of the Common Public License,
version 1.0, as published by http://www.opensource.org. For further
information, see the file `LICENSE' included with this distribution. */
package cc.mallet.extract;
/**
* Interface for functions that compares extracted values of a field to see
* if they match. These are used by the evaluation metrics (e.g.,
* @link{PerDocumentF1Evaluator}) to see if the extraction is correct.
*
* Created: Nov 23, 2004
*
* @author <A HREF="mailto:casutton@cs.umass.edu>casutton@cs.umass.edu</A>
* @version $Id: FieldComparator.java,v 1.1 2007/10/22 21:37:44 mccallum Exp $
*/
public interface FieldComparator {
/**
* Returns true if the given two slot fillers match.
*/
public boolean matches (String fieldVal1, String fieldVal2);
}