cc.mallet.cluster
Class Clusterer

java.lang.Object
  cc.mallet.cluster.Clusterer

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable

Direct Known Subclasses:

KBestClusterer, KMeans

public abstract class Clusterer
extends java.lang.Object
implements java.io.Serializable

An abstract class for clustering a set of points.

Author:

Jerod Weinman weinman@cs.umass.edu

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

Clusterer(Pipe instancePipe)
Creates a new Clusterer instance.

Method Summary

abstract Clustering	cluster(InstanceList trainingSet) Return a clustering of an InstanceList
Pipe	getPipe()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Clusterer

public Clusterer(Pipe instancePipe)

Creates a new Clusterer instance.

Parameters:

instancePipe - Pipe that created the InstanceList to be clustered.

Method Detail

cluster

public abstract Clustering cluster(InstanceList trainingSet)

Return a clustering of an InstanceList

getPipe

public Pipe getPipe()