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package de.hsheilbronn.mi.process;
import de.hsheilbronn.mi.configuration.SvmType;
import de.hsheilbronn.mi.domain.SvmDocument;
import de.hsheilbronn.mi.exception.ClassificationCoreException;
import java.util.List;
/**
* A Classifier using LIBSVM for classification.
*
* @author rz
*/
public interface SvmClassifier {
/**
* Classifies the given documents.
*
* @param documents must not be null or an empty {@link List list}.
* @param probabilityEstimates true for probability estimates else false. Note well,
* that this is only supported by SVC or SVR SVMs(see {@link SvmType})
* @return classified documents
* @throws AssertionError Thrown if a given parameter is invalid.
* @throws ClassificationCoreException Thrown if the underlaying model does not support probability estimates.
*/
List classify(List documents, boolean probabilityEstimates);
}