dragon.ml.seqmodel.data

Interface LabelConverter

All Known Implementing Classes:

BasicLabelConverter

public interface LabelConverter

Interface of Label Converter

The internal labels for sequence models such as CRF and HMM are integer-based and start from zero. However, human-annotated lables are usually string-based. Thus, it is necessary to convert.

Copyright: Copyright (c) 2005

Company: IST, Drexel University

Version:

1.0

Author:

Davis Zhou

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
int	getExternalLabelID(int internalLabel) Converts internal integer-based labels to external integer-based labels
String	getExternalLabelString(int internalLabel) Converts internal integer-based labels to external string-based labels
int	getInternalLabel(int externalLabel) Converts external integer-based labels to internal integer-based labels
int	getInternalLabel(String externalLabel) Converts external string-based labels to internal integer-based labels

Method Detail

getInternalLabel

int getInternalLabel(int externalLabel)

Converts external integer-based labels to internal integer-based labels

Parameters:

externalLabel - the external label

Returns:

the label for internal use

getInternalLabel

int getInternalLabel(String externalLabel)

Converts external string-based labels to internal integer-based labels

Parameters:

externalLabel - the external label

Returns:

the label for internal use

getExternalLabelID

int getExternalLabelID(int internalLabel)

Converts internal integer-based labels to external integer-based labels

Parameters:

internalLabel - the internal label

Returns:

the label for external use

getExternalLabelString

String getExternalLabelString(int internalLabel)

Converts internal integer-based labels to external string-based labels

Parameters:

internalLabel - the internal label

Returns:

the label for external use