00001 /*========================================================================== 00002 * Copyright (c) 2002 University of Massachusetts. All Rights Reserved. 00003 * 00004 * Use of the Lemur Toolkit for Language Modeling and Information Retrieval 00005 * is subject to the terms of the software license set forth in the LICENSE 00006 * file included with this software, and also available at 00007 * http://www.lemurproject.org/license.html 00008 * 00009 *========================================================================== 00010 */ 00011 /* 00012 Author: dmf 11/2002 00013 */ 00014 00015 #ifndef _SIMILARITYMETHOD_HPP 00016 #define _SIMILARITYMETHOD_HPP 00017 #include "ClusterRep.hpp" 00018 namespace lemur 00019 { 00020 namespace cluster 00021 { 00023 class SimilarityMethod { 00024 public: 00025 SimilarityMethod() {} 00026 virtual ~SimilarityMethod() {} 00028 virtual void weigh(ClusterRep *vec) const {} 00030 virtual double similarity(const ClusterRep *vec1, 00031 const ClusterRep *vec2) const = 0; 00032 }; 00033 } 00034 } 00035 00036 #endif /* _SIMILARITYMETHOD_HPP */