org.aksw.limes.core.measures.measure

Interface IMeasure

All Known Subinterfaces:

IEdgeCountingSemanticMeasure, IPointsetsMeasure, ISpaceMeasure, IStringMeasure, ITemporalMeasure, ITrieFilterableStringMeasure

All Known Implementing Classes:

AEdgeCountingSemanticMeasure, AfterMeasure, AMeasure, APointsetsMeasure, ASpaceMeasure, BeforeMeasure, Caverphone1Measure, Caverphone2Measure, CentroidIndexedHausdorffMeasure, ConcurrentMeasure, ContainsMeasure, CosineMeasure, CoveredbyMeasure, CoversMeasure, CrossesMeasure, DaitchMokotoffSoundexMeasure, DisjointMeasure, DoubleMetaphoneMeasure, DoubleMetaphoneMeasure, DuringMeasure, DuringReverseMeasure, EqualsMeasure, EqualsMeasure, EuclideanMeasure, ExactMatchMeasure, FairSurjectionMeasure, FastHausdorffMeasure, FinishesMeasure, GeoGreatEllipticMeasure, GeoOrthodromicMeasure, GeOxygeneFrechetMeasure, IndexedHausdorffMeasure, IntersectsMeasure, IsFinishedByMeasure, IsMetByMeasure, IsOverlappedByMeasure, IsStartedByMeasure, JaccardMeasure, JaroMeasure, JaroWinklerMeasure, KoelnPhoneticMeasure, KoelnPhoneticMeasure, LCHMeasure, LevenshteinMeasure, LiMeasure, ManhattanMeasure, MatchRatingApproachEncoderMeasure, MeetsMeasure, MetaphoneMeasure, MongeElkanMeasure, NaiveAverageMeasure, NaiveFrechetMeasure, NaiveHausdorffMeasure, NaiveLinkMeasure, NaiveMaxMeasure, NaiveMeanMeasure, NaiveMinMeasure, NaiveSumOfMinMeasure, NaiveSurjectionMeasure, NysiisMeasure, OverlapMeasure, OverlapsMeasure, OverlapsMeasure, PredecessorMeasure, QGramSimilarityMeasure, RatcliffObershelpMeasure, RefinedSoundexMeasure, ScanIndexedHausdorffMeasure, SetJaccardMeasure, ShortestPathMeasure, SoundexMeasure, StartsMeasure, StringMeasure, SuccessorMeasure, SymmetricHausdorffMeasure, TemporalMeasure, TouchesMeasure, TrigramMeasure, WithinMeasure, WuPalmerMeasure

public interface IMeasure

Implements the measure interface.

Version:

1.0

Author:

Axel-C. Ngonga Ngomo (ngonga@informatik.uni-leipzig.de), Kleanthi Georgala (georgala@informatik.uni-leipzig.de)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	getName() Returns name of a measure.
double	getRuntimeApproximation(double mappingSize) Returns the runtime approximation of a measure.
double	getSimilarity(Instance instance1, Instance instance2, String property1, String property2) Returns the similarity between two instances, given their corresponding properties.
double	getSimilarity(Object object1, Object object2) Returns the similarity between two objects.
String	getType() Returns type of a measure.

Method Detail

getSimilarity

double getSimilarity(Object object1,
                     Object object2)

Returns the similarity between two objects.

Parameters:

object1, - the source object

object2, - the target object

Returns:

The similarity of the objects

getSimilarity

double getSimilarity(Instance instance1,
                     Instance instance2,
                     String property1,
                     String property2)

Returns the similarity between two instances, given their corresponding properties.

Parameters:

instance1, - the source instance

instance2, - the target instance

property1, - the source property

property2, - the target property

Returns:

The similarity of the instances

getRuntimeApproximation

double getRuntimeApproximation(double mappingSize)

Returns the runtime approximation of a measure.

Parameters:

mappingSize, - the mapping size returned by the measure

Returns:

The runtime of the measure

getName

String getName()

Returns name of a measure.

Returns:

Measure name as a string

getType

String getType()

Returns type of a measure.

Returns:

The runtime of the measure