dragon.nlp.ontology

Interface SimilarityMetric

All Known Implementing Classes:

MeshSimilarity

public interface SimilarityMetric

Interface of Similarity Metrics

Copyright: Copyright (c) 2005

Company: IST, Drexel University

Version:

1.0

Author:

Davis Zhou

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
double	getSimilarity(Term a, Term b) Computes the similarity between two onotlogical terms.

Method Detail

getSimilarity

double getSimilarity(Term a,
                     Term b)

Computes the similarity between two onotlogical terms.

Parameters:

a - the first term

b - the second term

Returns:

the similarity between two onotlogical terms.