opennlp-dl/src/main/java/opennlp/dl/doccat/scoring/ClassificationScoringStrategy.java

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package opennlp.dl.doccat.scoring;

import java.util.List;

/**
 * Used to determine the scores of document classification. During classification,
 * documents are separated into smaller parts. The classification is run on each part.
 * Implementations of this interface are used to determine the score from the scores
 * of each individual part.
 */
public interface ClassificationScoringStrategy {

  /**
   * Calculate the final scores based on the scores of the individual document parts.
   * @param scores The scores for each individual part of the document.
   * @return The calculated scores.
   */
  double[] score(List<double[]> scores);

}