//Copyright (C) 2005 Richard J. Northedge
//
// This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
// modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
// License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
// version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
//
// This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
// GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
//
// You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
// License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
// Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.

//This file is based on the ContextGenerator.java source file found in the
//original java implementation of MaxEnt.  That source file contains the following header:

// Copyright (C) 2001 Jason Baldridge and Gann Bierner
//
// This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
// modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
// License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
// version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
//
// This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
// GNU General Public License for more details.
//
// You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
// License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
// Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.
 
using System;

namespace BotSharp.MachineLearning
{
	/// <summary> 
	/// Generate contexts for maximum entropy decisions.
	/// </summary>
	/// <author>
	/// Jason Baldridge
	/// </author>
	/// <author>
	/// Richard J. Northedge
	/// </author>
	/// <version>
	/// based on ContextGenerator.java, $Revision: 1.1.1.1 $, $Date: 2001/10/23 14:06:53 $
	/// </version>
	public interface IContextGenerator
	{
		/// <summary>
		/// Builds up the list of contextual predicates given an object.
		/// </summary>
		string[] GetContext(object input);
	}

    /// <summary> 
    /// Generate contexts for maximum entropy decisions.
    /// </summary>
    public interface IContextGenerator<T>
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Builds up the list of contextual predicates given an object of type T.
        /// </summary>
        string[] GetContext(T input);
    }

}