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 * Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab
 * Technische Universität Darmstadt
 *
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package org.dkpro.core.decompounding.ranking;

import java.util.List;

import org.dkpro.core.decompounding.splitter.DecompoundedWord;

/**
 * Ranking interface for list of splits
 * 
 */
public interface RankerList
    extends Ranker
{

    /**
     * Ranks the given splits and returns the split with highest rank
     * 
     * @param aSplits
     *            The highest ranked split
     * @return the split with highest rank
     */
    public DecompoundedWord highestRank(List<DecompoundedWord> aSplits);

    /**
     * Ranks all splits and returns a order list
     * 
     * @param aSplits
     *            the splits to rank.
     * @return the ordered split.
     */
    public List<DecompoundedWord> rank(List<DecompoundedWord> aSplits);
}
