sequentialclassifier.java

把 sequential 有导师学习问题转化为传统的有导师学习问题

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/*
 *    SequentialClassifier.java
 *    Copyright (C) 2003 University Of Waikato
 *
 */

package weka.classifiers;

import weka.classifiers.*;
import weka.core.*;

/** 
 * Abstract sequential classifier.
 *
 * @author Saket Joshi ([e-mail])
 * @author Richard Kirkby ([e-mail])
 * @version $Revision: 1.1 $
 */
public abstract class SequentialClassifier extends Classifier {

  /**
   * Classifies a given sequence.
   *
   * @param instance the instances to be classified
   * @return the predicted sequence, as an array of class labels
   */  
  public abstract double[] classifySequence(Instances insts) throws Exception;

  /**
   * Classifies a given instance. Always returns a missing value, as this classifier
   * predicts a sequence instead.
   *
   * @param instance the instance to be classified
   * @return missing
   */  
  public double classifyInstance(Instance inst) { return Instance.missingValue(); }

  /**
   * Classifies a given sequence, with class membership probabilities for the output sequence.
   *
   * @param insts the instances to be classified
   * @return the probabilities of the predicted sequence, as a double array of memberships
   */  
  public abstract double[][] distributionForSequence(Instances insts) throws Exception;
}