org.apache.lucene.search.similarities

## Class BasicModel

- java.lang.Object
- - org.apache.lucene.search.similarities.BasicModel

- Direct Known Subclasses:
    BasicModelBE, BasicModelD, BasicModelG, BasicModelIF, BasicModelIn, BasicModelIne, BasicModelP

      public abstract class BasicModel
      extends Object

  This class acts as the base class for the specific basic model implementations in the DFR framework. Basic models compute the informative content Inf1 = -log2Prob1 .
  See Also:
    `DFRSimilarity`
  WARNING: This API is experimental and might change in incompatible ways in the next release.

- - ### Constructor Summary

    Constructors
    Constructor and Description
    `BasicModel()` Sole constructor.

  - ### Method Summary

    Methods
    Modifier and Type | Method and Description
    --- | ---
    `Explanation` | `explain(BasicStats stats, float tfn)` Returns an explanation for the score.
    `abstract float` | `score(BasicStats stats, float tfn)` Returns the informative content score.
    `abstract String` | `toString()` Subclasses must override this method to return the code of the basic model formula.

    - ### Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

- - ### Constructor Detail

    - #### BasicModel

          public BasicModel()

      Sole constructor. (For invocation by subclass constructors, typically implicit.)

  - ### Method Detail

    - #### score

          public abstract float score(BasicStats stats,
                    float tfn)

      Returns the informative content score.

    - #### explain

          public Explanation explain(BasicStats stats,
                            float tfn)

      Returns an explanation for the score.

      Most basic models use the number of documents and the total term frequency to compute Inf1. This method provides a generic explanation for such models. Subclasses that use other statistics must override this method.

    - #### toString

          public abstract String toString()

      Subclasses must override this method to return the code of the basic model formula. Refer to the original paper for the list.
      Overrides:
        `toString` in class `Object`

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