On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Jörn Kottmann <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 8/15/11 3:27 PM, Jörn Kottmann wrote:
>
>> I had something like this in mind
>> void misclassified(T gold, T predicted);
>> where T is the generics type for the Sample object.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>
> I just had a look at the current code, where we can pass
> the printErrors flag to the XYEvaluator classes.
>
> There we have a number of printError methods in the Evaluator class,
> which are called from the actual implementation from evaluateSample.
>
> I suggest that we create a new abstract EvalutationErrorPrinter class,
> which
> is then sub-classed by the individual error printer classes. In this
> individual
> classes we implement the above proposed misclassified (which needs to be
> part of an interface)
> and call the printError methods.
>
> Alternatively to EvalutationErrorPrinter we could also use static
> imports for the printError methods.
>
> I don't think it is a big change, because we already have all the
> implementations,
> we just need to move them a little around for the proposed error reporting
> API.
>
> Lets see how that could look for Name Finder:
>
> We define the MissclassifiedSampleListener interface,
> with one void missclassified(T reference, T prediction) method.
>
> Then the EvaluationErrorPrinter class, with all the printError methods.
>
> And we have also a NameEvaluationErrorListener class which extends
> EvalutationErrorPrinter
> and implements MissclassifiedSampleListener<**NameSample>.
> This class implements the missclassified(NameSample reference, NameSample
> prediction)
> method according to the interface, and can simply call one of the
> printError methods from it.
>

Thank you, Jörn. I am working on it now.

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