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package opennlp.tools.languagemodel;
import opennlp.tools.util.StringList;
/**
* A language model can calculate the probability p (between 0 and 1) of a
* certain {@link opennlp.tools.util.StringList sequence of tokens}, given its underlying vocabulary.
*/
public interface LanguageModel {
/**
* Calculate the probability of a series of tokens (e.g. a sentence), given a vocabulary
*
* @param tokens the text tokens to calculate the probability for
* @return the probability of the given text tokens in the vocabulary
*/
double calculateProbability(StringList tokens);
/**
* Predict the most probable output sequence of tokens, given an input sequence of tokens
*
* @param tokens a sequence of tokens
* @return the most probable subsequent token sequence
*/
StringList predictNextTokens(StringList tokens);
}