it.cnr.isti.hpc.dexter.disambiguation

Class TopScoreEntityDisambiguator

java.lang.Object

it.cnr.isti.hpc.dexter.disambiguation.TopScoreEntityDisambiguator

All Implemented Interfaces:

Disambiguator

public class TopScoreEntityDisambiguator
extends Object
implements Disambiguator

Implements the Okkam's Razor principle, resolving the ambiguity for a spot using the entity with the largest probability to be represented by the spot (this probability is called commonness, and it is computed as the ratio between the links that point to the entity (using the spot as anchor) and the total number of links that have the spot as anchor.

Author:

Diego Ceccarelli Created on Sep 30, 2013

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
TopScoreEntityDisambiguator()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
EntityMatchList	disambiguate(SpotMatchList sml) Given a list of matched spots, where each spot has one or more candidate entities, returns a list of entities, so that each spot can have at most one entity.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

TopScoreEntityDisambiguator

public TopScoreEntityDisambiguator()

Method Detail

disambiguate

public EntityMatchList disambiguate(SpotMatchList sml)

Description copied from interface: Disambiguator

Given a list of matched spots, where each spot has one or more candidate entities, returns a list of entities, so that each spot can have at most one entity.

Specified by:

disambiguate in interface Disambiguator

Parameters:

sml - - the list of spots detected in a document, each spot match contains a list of candidate entities.