/* 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.grmm.inference.gbp;
import cc.mallet.grmm.types.FactorGraph;
/**
* Interface for strategies that construct region graphs from arbitrary graphical models.
* They choose both which factors should be grouped into a region, and what the connectivity
* between regions should be.
*
* Created: May 27, 2005
*
* @author <A HREF="mailto:casutton@cs.umass.edu>casutton@cs.umass.edu</A>
* @version $Id: RegionGraphGenerator.java,v 1.1 2007/10/22 21:37:58 mccallum Exp $
*/
public interface RegionGraphGenerator {
/**
* Construct a region graph from an artbitrary model.
* @param mdl Undirected Model to construct region graph from.
*/
RegionGraph constructRegionGraph (FactorGraph mdl);
}