Package de.uni_mannheim.informatik.dws.melt.matching_base.multisource

Class MatcherMultiSourceURL

java.lang.Object

de.uni_mannheim.informatik.dws.melt.matching_base.multisource.MatcherMultiSourceURL

Direct Known Subclasses:

MatcherMultiSourceYAAAJena, MultiSourceDispatcherAllPairs, MultiSourceDispatcherIncrementalMerge, MultiSourceDispatcherTransitivePairsOrderBased, MultiSourceDispatcherTransitivePairsTextBased, MultiSourceDispatcherUnionToUnion

public abstract class MatcherMultiSourceURL
extends Object

Multi source matcher which expects URLs as parameters. Better do not use this class but implement the interface IMatcherMultiSource. Subclasses of this class also try to implement this interface.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
MatcherMultiSourceURL()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
abstract URL	match(List<URL> models, URL inputAlignment, URL parameters)	Matches multiple ontologies/knowledge graphs together.
boolean	needsTransitiveClosureForEvaluation()	Returns a boolean value if the matcher needs a transitive closure for evaluation.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Details

MatcherMultiSourceURL

public MatcherMultiSourceURL()

Method Details

match

public abstract URL match(List<URL> models,
 URL inputAlignment,
 URL parameters)
                   throws Exception

Matches multiple ontologies/knowledge graphs together.

Parameters:

models - the ontologies/knowledge graphs as URLs

inputAlignment - the input alignment as URL (alignment API format)

parameters - the parameters file url. Format are currently json or yaml.

Returns:

an alignment as URL (most often as file URL) the format is again the alignment API format.

Throws:

Exception - in case something went wrong

needsTransitiveClosureForEvaluation

public boolean needsTransitiveClosureForEvaluation()

Returns a boolean value if the matcher needs a transitive closure for evaluation. E.g. some matchers match only A-B-C and the testcase asks for A-C then this is only true, if the transitive closure is computed

Returns:

true if the transitive closure is need, false otherwise