dragon.ir.summarize

Interface StructureSummarizer

All Known Implementing Classes:

RelationGenerativeSum, TermGenerativeSum

public interface StructureSummarizer

Interface of structural summarizer

Copyright: Copyright (c) 2005

Company: IST, Drexel University

Version:

1.0

Author:

Davis Zhou

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
IndexReader	getIndexReader()
TopicSummary	summarize(ArrayList docSet)
TopicSummary	summarize(ArrayList docSet, int maxLength) The interpretation of the length is subject to the implementations.

Method Detail

getIndexReader

IndexReader getIndexReader()

Returns:

the index reader the current summarizer is working on

summarize

TopicSummary summarize(ArrayList docSet)

Parameters:

docSet - a list of IRDoc objects

Returns:

a structured summary

summarize

TopicSummary summarize(ArrayList docSet,
                       int maxLength)

The interpretation of the length is subject to the implementations.

Parameters:

docSet - a list of IRDoc objects

maxLength - the length of the summary

Returns:

a structured summary