edu.columbia.cs.cg.prdualrank.inference.convergence
Interface ConvergenceFinder

All Known Implementing Classes:

NumberOfIterationsConvergence

public interface ConvergenceFinder

This class is used for our implementation of: "Searching Patterns for Relation Extraction over the Web: Rediscovering the Pattern-Relation Duality" . Y. Fang and K. C.-C. Chang. In WSDM, pages 825-834, 2011. For further information, WSDM 2011 Conference Website .

Description

Defines the interface of Convergence methods for Inference in the PRDualRank inference method.
For more information, please read the Algorithm PRDualRank(G,To) in Figure 6 of the mentioned paper.

Since:

2011-10-07

Version:

0.1

Author:

Pablo Barrio, Goncalo Simoes

See Also:

WSDM 2011 Conference Website

Method Summary

boolean	converged() Aks if the method has converged.
void	reset() Set the state of the convergence finder to initial.

Method Detail

reset

void reset()

Set the state of the convergence finder to initial.

converged

boolean converged()

Aks if the method has converged.

Returns:

true, if converged.