Wojciech Jaworski / ENIAM

package is2.tools;

import is2.data.SentenceData09;

/**
 * Provides Methods for the retraining
 * 
 * @author bohnetbd
 *
 */
public interface Retrainable {

	/**
	 * Retrains with a update factor (upd). The retraining stops when the model
	 * was successful adapted or it gave up after the maximal iterations.
	 *
	 * @param sentence
	 *            the data container of the new example.
	 * @param upd
	 *            the update factor, e.g. 0.01
	 * @param iterations
	 *            maximal number of iterations that are tried to adapt the
	 *            system.
	 * @return success = true -- else false
	 */
	public boolean retrain(SentenceData09 sentence, float upd, int iterations);

	boolean retrain(SentenceData09 sentence, float upd, int iterations, boolean print);

}