info.ephyra.answerselection.filters
Class DuplicateSnippetFilter

java.lang.Object
  info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.Filter
      info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.DuplicateSnippetFilter

public class DuplicateSnippetFilter
extends Filter

A variant of the DuplicateFilter for answer candidates that are text snippets.

This class extends the class Filter.

Version:

2008-02-15

Author:

Guido Sautter

Constructor Summary

DuplicateSnippetFilter()

Method Summary

Result[]

apply(Result[] results) Filters duplicate results and increments the scores of the remaining results by the scores of the dropped results.

Methods inherited from class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.Filter

apply

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

DuplicateSnippetFilter

public DuplicateSnippetFilter()

Method Detail

apply

public Result[] apply(Result[] results)

Filters duplicate results and increments the scores of the remaining results by the scores of the dropped results.

Overrides:

apply in class Filter

Parameters:

results - array of Result objects

Returns:

array of Result objects without duplicates