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package org.apache.lucene.search.similarities;


import org.apache.lucene.search.Explanation;

/**
 * This class acts as the base class for the specific <em>basic model</em>
 * implementations in the DFR framework. Basic models compute the
 * <em>informative content Inf<sub>1</sub> = -log<sub>2</sub>Prob<sub>1</sub>
 * </em>.
 * 
 * @see DFRSimilarity
 * @lucene.experimental
 */
public abstract class BasicModel {
  
  /**
   * Sole constructor. (For invocation by subclass 
   * constructors, typically implicit.)
   */
  public BasicModel() {}

  /** Returns the informative content score combined with the after effect, more specifically
   * {@code informationContentScore * aeTimes1pTfn / (1 + tfn)}. This function must be
   * non-decreasing with {@code tfn}. */
  public abstract double score(BasicStats stats, double tfn, double aeTimes1pTfn);
  

  /**
   * Returns an explanation for the score.
   * Subclasses must override this method.
   */
  public abstract Explanation explain (BasicStats stats, double tfn, double aeTimes1pTfn);

  /**
   * Subclasses must override this method to return the code of the
   * basic model formula. Refer to the original paper for the list. 
   */
  @Override
  public abstract String toString();
}
