com.aliasi.util

Interface FeatureExtractor<E>

Type Parameters:

E - the type of object whose features are extracted

All Known Implementing Classes:

AddFeatureExtractor, BoundedFeatureExtractor, CacheFeatureExtractor, ChunkerFeatureExtractor, FeatureExtractorFilter, InteractionFeatureExtractor, KnownFeatureExtractor, LengthNormFeatureExtractor, MockFeatureExtractor, ModifiedFeatureExtractor, PrefixedFeatureExtractor, SerializableMockFeatureExtractor, StringLengthFeatureExtractor, TokenFeatureExtractor, ZScoreFeatureExtractor

public interface FeatureExtractor<E>

A FeatureExtractor provides a method of converting generic input objects into feature vectors. Features themselves are represented as strings. Feature vectors are typically very sparse, so they are represented as maps from objects to numerical values. Numerical values may be any numerical type, such as Double, Float, or Integer.

For linear classifiers, it is often convenient to include a distinguished feature with a value of 1.0 as part of every vector. This will allow linear classifiers to learn offsets.

The class ObjectToDoubleMap is useful for incrementally constructing feature maps.

Since:

Lingpipe3.8

Version:

3.8

Author:

Bob Carpenter

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Map<String,? extends Number>	features(E in) Return the feature vector for the specified input.

Method Detail

features

Map<String,? extends Number> features(E in)

Return the feature vector for the specified input.

Parameters:

in - Input object.

Returns:

The feature vector for the specified input.