1 /* 2 * Copyright (C) 2004-2006 Christian Siefkes <christian@siefkes.net>. 3 * Development of this software is supported by the German Research Society, 4 * Berlin-Brandenburg Graduate School in Distributed Information Systems 5 * (DFG grant no. GRK 316). 6 * 7 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 8 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 9 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or 10 * (at your option) any later version. 11 * 12 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 13 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 14 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 15 * GNU General Public License for more details. 16 * 17 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 18 * along with this program; if not, visit 19 * http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html or write to the Free Software 20 * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA 21 */ 22 package de.fu_berlin.ties.eval; 23 24 /*** 25 * Classes implementing this interface provide input for calculating evaluation 26 * metrics: <em>true positives</em>, <em>false negatives</em> and 27 * <em>false positives</em>. 28 * 29 * @author Christian Siefkes 30 * @version $Revision: 1.4 $, $Date: 2006/10/21 16:04:11 $, $Author: siefkes $ 31 */ 32 public interface EvalInput { 33 34 /*** 35 * Returns the number of false negatives (false rejections). 36 * @return the number of false negatives 37 */ 38 long getFalseNeg(); 39 40 /*** 41 * Returns the number of false positives (false acceptances). 42 * @return the number of false positives 43 */ 44 long getFalsePos(); 45 46 /*** 47 * Returns the number of true positives (correct recognitions). 48 * @return the number of true positives 49 */ 50 long getTruePos(); 51 52 }