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package smile.nlp.relevance;

import smile.nlp.Corpus;
import smile.nlp.TextTerms;

/**
 * An interface to provide relevance ranking algorithm.
 *
 * @author Haifeng Li
 */
public interface RelevanceRanker {
    /**
     * Returns a relevance score between a term and a document based on a corpus.
     * @param corpus the corpus.
     * @param doc the document to rank.
     * @param term the searching term.
     * @param tf the term frequency in the document.
     * @param n the number of documents containing the given term in the corpus;
     */
    double rank(Corpus corpus, TextTerms doc, String term, int tf, int n);

    /**
     * Returns a relevance score between a set of terms and a document based on a corpus.
     * @param corpus the corpus.
     * @param doc the document to rank.
     * @param terms the searching terms.
     * @param tf the term frequencies in the document.
     * @param n the number of documents containing the given term in the corpus;
     */
    double rank(Corpus corpus, TextTerms doc, String[] terms, int[] tf, int n);
}