def _findAssociation_ReadArticleFirst(self, articles, rankLimit=7):
self.wiki = Wiki()
allLinksMultiSet = {}
wikiReader = WikiTextReader()
for articleTitle in articles:
content = self.wiki.getArticle(articleTitle)
links = wikiReader.readLinks(articleTitle, content, 0, 0, 100000)
onlyLinks = [link for (link, freq) in links]
allLinksMultiSet[articleTitle] = collections.Counter(onlyLinks)
return self._findSharedLinks(allLinksMultiSet, articles, rankLimit)
def _findAssociation_SharedFirst(self, articles, rankLimit=7):
""" The algorithm for finding soft associations between a list of articles
Input Parameters:
articles: A list containing all the article names that you want to find associations between
rankLimit: Determines how many top shared article associations should be returned for the list of articles
given. The function may return at most rankLimit items.
returns:
An Adjacency list representation of the graph that associates all the articles with intermediate articles and
the original articles as vertices.
"""
self.wiki = Wiki()
allLinksMultiSet = {}
#Create a multi set for each article links.
for articleTitle in articles:
allLinksMultiSet[articleTitle] = collections.Counter(self.wiki.getLinks(articleTitle))
#Find the intersection of all the multi sets for all the articles
mainArticleTitle = articles.pop()
mainSet = allLinksMultiSet[mainArticleTitle]
for articleTitle in articles:
mainSet = mainSet & allLinksMultiSet[articleTitle]
sharedLinks = list(mainSet.elements())
#If more than rankLimit items are found. Use PageRank to find the top rankLimit Items
if len(sharedLinks) > rankLimit:
interimLinks = [(link,self._calculatePageRankLinkWeight(link)) for link in sharedLinks]
sortedLinks = sorted(interimLinks, key= lambda item:item[1])
length = len(sortedLinks)
sharedLinks = [link for (link,freq) in sortedLinks[ length-rankLimit - 1: length]]
return sharedLinks
def _selectImportantLinks_Freq(self, mainArticleName, interimLinks, aliases, content, secondScanLimit = _SECOND_SCAN_LIMIT,
maxLinkLimit = _MAX_LINKS_LIMIT):
"""
This class selects the most important links based on the frequency of them or their aliases appearing in the
text. The output of this function should be bounded and be no more than __MAX_LINKS_LIMIT. This is accomplished by
tightening the bound of acceptable frequencies for links.
Input Parameters:
interimLinks A lists of tuples in the form of (link,freq) that shows the frequency of a single link in
the text. These are the initial links that have been gathered but should be filtered further.
aliases: A map of all the aliases that are known. This map is in the form of { "name" = "Alias" } which shows
an Alias for a given name. The aliases map should be constructed when the text is searched for links
content: The actual wikiText content to search in. This is the result of the retrieval of RAW data from
Wikipedia.
Returns:
A list of filtered tuples in the form of (link,freq) that are selected from interimLinks based
on their frequencies.
"""
#Search the content for the link or its aliases and get the total number of frequencies for each link.
finalLinks = []
wiki = Wiki()
for (topLink, freq) in interimLinks:
newFreq = self._searchContent(topLink, freq, aliases, content)
isDoubleLink = wiki.doesPageContainLink(mainArticleName,topLink)
#TODO remove this later
print isDoubleLink
if isDoubleLink:
newFreq *= self._DOUBLE_LINK_MULTIPLIER
finalLinks.append((topLink, newFreq))
#Here we have a large number of links and frequencies. We go through them to just select no more than
# __MAX_LINKS_LIMIT. Start from __SECOND_SCAN_LIMIT and in each step make the threshold of acceptable frequencies
#tighter until the number of links is smaller than __MAX_LINKS_LIMIT .
step = 0
while len(finalLinks) >= maxLinkLimit:
finalLinks = [(link, freq) for (link, freq) in finalLinks if freq > secondScanLimit + step]
step += 1
return finalLinks
def getImportantLinks(self,
articleTitle,
selectionAlgorithm=SelectionAlgorithm.PageRank,
outputLimit=15):
"""Retrieves the most important links in an article based on a specified algorithm
This is the function that retrieves and ranks items from wikipedia. This function always combines the results
with a bag of words algorithm.
The bag of words algorithm is run automatically when a wikiReader reads links. It goes through two steps of
first identifying all links than selecting the most frequent of those links in the wikiText.
Right now page ranks takes some time to finish but this should not be a problem. A Hadoop server with MapReduce
and a sophisticated caching mechanisms along with an index database will significantly improve the speed to a
matter of miliseconds.
Input Parameters:
articleTitle : The title of the article to retrieve and rank the links for
selectionAlgorithm : The algorithm to use for ranking alongside bag of words
outputLimit: This specifies how many links should be ranked and returned
Returns:
A list containing top links titles. (the number or links equals to the outputLimit input parameter passed in)
"""
#Get article content
self.wiki = Wiki()
articleContent = self.wiki.getArticle(articleTitle)
#Read all the links from the wikiText
wikiReader = WikiTextReader()
links = wikiReader.readLinks(articleTitle, articleContent)
#Select the ranking algorithm and run it in the all links that are retrieved
selectionAlg = getattr(self, "_selectLinks_%s" % selectionAlgorithm)
return selectionAlg(links, outputLimit)
def _findAssociation_SharedLinksFirst(self, articles, rankLimit=7):
""" The algorithm for finding soft associations between a list of articles
Input Parameters:
articles: A list containing all the article names that you want to find associations between
rankLimit: Determines how many top shared article associations should be returned for the list of articles
given. The function may return at most rankLimit items.
returns:
An Adjacency list representation of the graph that associates all the articles with intermediate articles and
the original articles as vertices.
"""
self.wiki = Wiki()
allLinksMultiSet = {}
#Create a multi set for each article links.
for articleTitle in articles:
allLinksMultiSet[articleTitle] = collections.Counter(
self.wiki.getLinks(articleTitle))
return self._findSharedLinks(allLinksMultiSet, articles, rankLimit)
def _findAssociation_ReadArticleFirst(self,articles,rankLimit =7):
self.wiki = Wiki()
allLinksMultiSet = {}
wikiReader = WikiTextReader()
for articleTitle in articles:
content = self.wiki.getArticle(articleTitle)
links = wikiReader.readLinks(articleTitle,content,0,0,100000)
onlyLinks = [link for (link,freq) in links]
allLinksMultiSet[articleTitle] = collections.Counter(onlyLinks)
return self._findSharedLinks(allLinksMultiSet,articles,rankLimit)
def _findAssociation_SharedLinksFirst(self, articles, rankLimit=7):
""" The algorithm for finding soft associations between a list of articles
Input Parameters:
articles: A list containing all the article names that you want to find associations between
rankLimit: Determines how many top shared article associations should be returned for the list of articles
given. The function may return at most rankLimit items.
returns:
An Adjacency list representation of the graph that associates all the articles with intermediate articles and
the original articles as vertices.
"""
self.wiki = Wiki()
allLinksMultiSet = {}
#Create a multi set for each article links.
for articleTitle in articles:
allLinksMultiSet[articleTitle] = collections.Counter(self.wiki.getLinks(articleTitle))
return self._findSharedLinks(allLinksMultiSet,articles,rankLimit)
def getImportantLinks(self, articleTitle, selectionAlgorithm=SelectionAlgorithm.PageRank, outputLimit=15):
"""Retrieves the most important links in an article based on a specified algorithm
This is the function that retrieves and ranks items from wikipedia. This function always combines the results
with a bag of words algorithm.
The bag of words algorithm is run automatically when a wikiReader reads links. It goes through two steps of
first identifying all links than selecting the most frequent of those links in the wikiText.
Right now page ranks takes some time to finish but this should not be a problem. A Hadoop server with MapReduce
and a sophisticated caching mechanisms along with an index database will significantly improve the speed to a
matter of miliseconds.
Input Parameters:
articleTitle : The title of the article to retrieve and rank the links for
selectionAlgorithm : The algorithm to use for ranking alongside bag of words
outputLimit: This specifies how many links should be ranked and returned
Returns:
A list containing top links titles. (the number or links equals to the outputLimit input parameter passed in)
"""
#Get article content
self.wiki = Wiki()
articleContent = self.wiki.getArticle(articleTitle)
#Read all the links from the wikiText
wikiReader = WikiTextReader()
links = wikiReader.readLinks(articleTitle,articleContent)
#Select the ranking algorithm and run it in the all links that are retrieved
selectionAlg = getattr(self, "_selectLinks_%s" % selectionAlgorithm)
return selectionAlg(links, outputLimit)
#before in the body of the text increase its initial frequency counter; Otherwise, add a new entry to the cleanLinks
#map. This map contains {nameOfTheLink = frequencyOfTheLink} and will be updated as new links are encountered.
cleanLinks = {}
aliases = {}
for link in dirtyLinks:
if link.find(':') == -1:
stringItems = link.split('|')
key = stringItems[0]
if cleanLinks.has_key(key):
cleanLinks[key] += 1
else:
cleanLinks[key] = 1
if len(stringItems) > 1:
aliases[key] = stringItems[1]
#Links that appear only once in the text should be filtered out.
interimLinks = [ (topLink, freq) for (topLink, freq) in cleanLinks.items() if freq > firstScanLimit]
#For the remaining links adjustments must be made so that we get the most important links and the result should
#be returned.
return self._selectImportantLinks_Freq(articleName, interimLinks, aliases, content, secondScanLimit, maxLinkLimit)
if __name__ == "__main__":
from wikiadapter import Wiki
wiki = Wiki()
articleName = "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"
content = wiki.getArticle(articleName)
reader = WikiTextReader()
print len(reader.readLinks(articleName,content))
print ["%s=%s" % (link, freq) for (link, freq) in reader.readLinks(articleName,content)]
class WikiController:
"""Encapsulates the wikipedia API classes and controls their functionality.
The main controller to work with API.
This encapsulates all the complexity of a wikiReader,WikiAdapter, and the ranking algorithms.
The public API for this class provides the following functions:
getImportantLinks: Retrieves the most important links in an article based on a specified algorithm
findAssociations: Finds association between a list of articles
"""
def getImportantLinks(self, articleTitle, selectionAlgorithm=SelectionAlgorithm.PageRank, outputLimit=15):
"""Retrieves the most important links in an article based on a specified algorithm
This is the function that retrieves and ranks items from wikipedia. This function always combines the results
with a bag of words algorithm.
The bag of words algorithm is run automatically when a wikiReader reads links. It goes through two steps of
first identifying all links than selecting the most frequent of those links in the wikiText.
Right now page ranks takes some time to finish but this should not be a problem. A Hadoop server with MapReduce
and a sophisticated caching mechanisms along with an index database will significantly improve the speed to a
matter of miliseconds.
Input Parameters:
articleTitle : The title of the article to retrieve and rank the links for
selectionAlgorithm : The algorithm to use for ranking alongside bag of words
outputLimit: This specifies how many links should be ranked and returned
Returns:
A list containing top links titles. (the number or links equals to the outputLimit input parameter passed in)
"""
#Get article content
self.wiki = Wiki()
articleContent = self.wiki.getArticle(articleTitle)
#Read all the links from the wikiText
wikiReader = WikiTextReader()
links = wikiReader.readLinks(articleTitle,articleContent)
#Select the ranking algorithm and run it in the all links that are retrieved
selectionAlg = getattr(self, "_selectLinks_%s" % selectionAlgorithm)
return selectionAlg(links, outputLimit)
def findAssociations(self, articles, criteria=AssociationCriteria.SharedLinksFirst):
""" Finds association between a list of articles
This finds all the associations between a list of articles represented by articles input parameter.
The associations are found by finding all the important links for all of the links and finding the ones
that appear in two or more articles.
Input Parameters:
articles: A list containing all the article names that you want to find associations between
criteria: The criteria for finding the association. The default value is shareFirst meaning that
at first the shared links are found and then a pageRank algorithm is run on them to find the most relevant ones.
See the "Association Criteria" class for more detail
Returns:
A List of all the shared articles and associations between all the articles in the inputparameter
"""
findAssociationAlg = getattr(self,"_findAssociation_%s" % criteria)
return findAssociationAlg(articles)
def _findSharedLinks(self,allLinksMultiSet,articles,rankLimit):
#Find the intersection of all the multi sets for all the articles
mainArticleTitle = articles.pop()
mainSet = allLinksMultiSet[mainArticleTitle]
for articleTitle in articles:
mainSet = mainSet & allLinksMultiSet[articleTitle]
sharedLinks = list(mainSet.elements())
#If more than rankLimit items are found. Use PageRank to find the top rankLimit Items
if len(sharedLinks) > rankLimit:
interimLinks = [(link,self._calculatePageRankLinkWeight(link)) for link in sharedLinks]
sortedLinks = sorted(interimLinks, key= lambda item:item[1])
length = len(sortedLinks)
sharedLinks = [link for (link,freq) in sortedLinks[ length-rankLimit - 1: length]]
return sharedLinks
def _findAssociation_ReadArticleFirst(self,articles,rankLimit =7):
self.wiki = Wiki()
allLinksMultiSet = {}
wikiReader = WikiTextReader()
for articleTitle in articles:
content = self.wiki.getArticle(articleTitle)
links = wikiReader.readLinks(articleTitle,content,0,0,100000)
onlyLinks = [link for (link,freq) in links]
allLinksMultiSet[articleTitle] = collections.Counter(onlyLinks)
return self._findSharedLinks(allLinksMultiSet,articles,rankLimit)
def _findAssociation_SharedLinksFirst(self, articles, rankLimit=7):
""" The algorithm for finding soft associations between a list of articles
Input Parameters:
articles: A list containing all the article names that you want to find associations between
rankLimit: Determines how many top shared article associations should be returned for the list of articles
given. The function may return at most rankLimit items.
returns:
An Adjacency list representation of the graph that associates all the articles with intermediate articles and
the original articles as vertices.
"""
self.wiki = Wiki()
allLinksMultiSet = {}
#Create a multi set for each article links.
for articleTitle in articles:
allLinksMultiSet[articleTitle] = collections.Counter(self.wiki.getLinks(articleTitle))
return self._findSharedLinks(allLinksMultiSet,articles,rankLimit)
def _selectLinks_PageRank(self, links, rankLimit):
"""
This is the page rank algorithm for selecting at most rankLimit items from a list of (link,freq) tuples.
The freq in the tuples corresponds to the bag of words frequencies.
Because the number of frequencies returned by the bag of words is usually in the order of ten and the frequencies
returned by the pageRank are in the order of thousands. Both of these should be normalized so that they can be
combined
Input parameters:
links: a list of tuples in the form of (Link,freq) in which Link is the title of Link and freq is the result of
the bag of words algorithm
rankLimit: The number of items that should be returned. In other words, the top rankLimit number of items.
Returns:
A list of link titles containing the top rankLimit items.
"""
#Normalize the bag of words frequencies
links = self._normalize(links)
#Calculate pageRankWeights by counting the backLinks
interimLinks = [(link, self._calculatePageRankLinkWeight(link)) for (link, freq) in links]
#Normalize the pageRank frequencies
interimLinks = self._normalize(interimLinks)
#Combine normalized bag of words and pageRank frequencies
interimLinks = self._combineFreqParameters(links, interimLinks)
#Sort and return the top rankLimit items
sortedLinks = sorted(interimLinks, key= lambda item:item[1])
#TODO remove this print statement for production
print "\n".join(["%s=%s" % (link, freq) for (link, freq) in sortedLinks])
length = len(sortedLinks)
return [link for (link, freq) in sortedLinks[ length-rankLimit - 1: length]]
def _calculatePageRankLinkWeight(self, link):
"""
This calculates the pageRank weights by counting the backLinks that go into a single Link. In other words
this function returns the number of pages that have links to this page.
Right now we only count a limited number of backlinks to prune out irrelevant big items (like God or Apple).
The number of backLinks to read is determined in the
WikiAdapter class under __CONTINUE_LIMIT.
Input parameters:
link: a single link to count the backlinks for
Returns:
A number corresponding to the number of pages that link to this page.
"""
return len(self.wiki.getBackLinks(link))
def _normalize(self, links):
"""
A simple normalization function that uses the mean of all the frequencies in the links to normalize frequencies.
if there are not a lot of links the normalization is not done and the links are returned as inputted.
Input parameters:
links: a list of (link,freq) tuples.
Returns:
A list of (link,freq) tuples in which freq is the normalized frequency.
"""
if links:
mean = float(sum([freq for (link, freq) in links]) / len(links))
links = [(link, float(freq / mean)) for (link, freq) in links]
return links
def _combineFreqParameters(self, list1, list2):
"""
This function combines the normalized frequencies of two lists passed into it.
The combining is done by just summing over both frequencies.
List1 and List2 should be the results of different algorithms
input Parameters:
List1: a list containing tuples of (link,freq).
List2: a list containing tuples of (link,freq).
Returns:
A list containing tuples of (link,freq) in which freq is the combined frequency.
"""
#zipped = [((linkA,freq1),(linkA,freq2)),((linkB,freq3),(linkB,freq4))...]
zipped = zip(list1, list2)
return [(combinedTuple[0][0], combinedTuple[0][1] + combinedTuple[1][1]) for combinedTuple in zipped]
#and store the alias with the name key in a map. Finally, if the phrase that you are looking at has been encountered
#before in the body of the text increase its initial frequency counter; Otherwise, add a new entry to the cleanLinks
#map. This map contains {nameOfTheLink = frequencyOfTheLink} and will be updated as new links are encountered.
cleanLinks = {}
aliases = {}
for link in dirtyLinks:
if link.find(':') == -1:
stringItems = link.split('|')
key = stringItems[0]
if cleanLinks.has_key(key):
cleanLinks[key] += 1
else:
cleanLinks[key] = 1
if len(stringItems) > 1:
aliases[key] = stringItems[1]
#Links that appear only once in the text should be filtered out.
interimLinks = [ (topLink, freq) for (topLink, freq) in cleanLinks.items() if freq > self._FIRST_SCAN_LIMIT]
#For the remaining links adjustments must be made so that we get the most important links and the result should
#be returned.
return self._selectImportantLinks_Freq(interimLinks, aliases, content)
if __name__ == "__main__":
from wikiadapter import Wiki
wiki = Wiki()
content = wiki.getArticle("Shine On You Crazy Diamond")
reader = WikiTextReader()
print len(reader.readLinks(content))
print ["%s=%s" % (link, freq) for (link, freq) in reader.readLinks(content)]
class WikiController:
"""Encapsulates the wikipedia API classes and controls their functionality.
The main controller to work with API.
This encapsulates all the complexity of a wikiReader,WikiAdapter, and the ranking algorithms.
The public API for this class provides the following functions:
getImportantLinks: Retrieves the most important links in an article based on a specified algorithm
findAssociations: Finds association between a list of articles
"""
def getImportantLinks(self,
articleTitle,
selectionAlgorithm=SelectionAlgorithm.PageRank,
outputLimit=15):
"""Retrieves the most important links in an article based on a specified algorithm
This is the function that retrieves and ranks items from wikipedia. This function always combines the results
with a bag of words algorithm.
The bag of words algorithm is run automatically when a wikiReader reads links. It goes through two steps of
first identifying all links than selecting the most frequent of those links in the wikiText.
Right now page ranks takes some time to finish but this should not be a problem. A Hadoop server with MapReduce
and a sophisticated caching mechanisms along with an index database will significantly improve the speed to a
matter of miliseconds.
Input Parameters:
articleTitle : The title of the article to retrieve and rank the links for
selectionAlgorithm : The algorithm to use for ranking alongside bag of words
outputLimit: This specifies how many links should be ranked and returned
Returns:
A list containing top links titles. (the number or links equals to the outputLimit input parameter passed in)
"""
#Get article content
self.wiki = Wiki()
articleContent = self.wiki.getArticle(articleTitle)
#Read all the links from the wikiText
wikiReader = WikiTextReader()
links = wikiReader.readLinks(articleTitle, articleContent)
#Select the ranking algorithm and run it in the all links that are retrieved
selectionAlg = getattr(self, "_selectLinks_%s" % selectionAlgorithm)
return selectionAlg(links, outputLimit)
def findAssociations(self,
articles,
criteria=AssociationCriteria.SharedLinksFirst):
""" Finds association between a list of articles
This finds all the associations between a list of articles represented by articles input parameter.
The associations are found by finding all the important links for all of the links and finding the ones
that appear in two or more articles.
Input Parameters:
articles: A list containing all the article names that you want to find associations between
criteria: The criteria for finding the association. The default value is shareFirst meaning that
at first the shared links are found and then a pageRank algorithm is run on them to find the most relevant ones.
See the "Association Criteria" class for more detail
Returns:
A List of all the shared articles and associations between all the articles in the inputparameter
"""
findAssociationAlg = getattr(self, "_findAssociation_%s" % criteria)
return findAssociationAlg(articles)
def _findSharedLinks(self, allLinksMultiSet, articles, rankLimit):
#Find the intersection of all the multi sets for all the articles
mainArticleTitle = articles.pop()
mainSet = allLinksMultiSet[mainArticleTitle]
for articleTitle in articles:
mainSet = mainSet & allLinksMultiSet[articleTitle]
sharedLinks = list(mainSet.elements())
#If more than rankLimit items are found. Use PageRank to find the top rankLimit Items
if len(sharedLinks) > rankLimit:
interimLinks = [(link, self._calculatePageRankLinkWeight(link))
for link in sharedLinks]
sortedLinks = sorted(interimLinks, key=lambda item: item[1])
length = len(sortedLinks)
sharedLinks = [
link
for (link, freq) in sortedLinks[length - rankLimit - 1:length]
]
return sharedLinks
def _findAssociation_ReadArticleFirst(self, articles, rankLimit=7):
self.wiki = Wiki()
allLinksMultiSet = {}
wikiReader = WikiTextReader()
for articleTitle in articles:
content = self.wiki.getArticle(articleTitle)
links = wikiReader.readLinks(articleTitle, content, 0, 0, 100000)
onlyLinks = [link for (link, freq) in links]
allLinksMultiSet[articleTitle] = collections.Counter(onlyLinks)
return self._findSharedLinks(allLinksMultiSet, articles, rankLimit)
def _findAssociation_SharedLinksFirst(self, articles, rankLimit=7):
""" The algorithm for finding soft associations between a list of articles
Input Parameters:
articles: A list containing all the article names that you want to find associations between
rankLimit: Determines how many top shared article associations should be returned for the list of articles
given. The function may return at most rankLimit items.
returns:
An Adjacency list representation of the graph that associates all the articles with intermediate articles and
the original articles as vertices.
"""
self.wiki = Wiki()
allLinksMultiSet = {}
#Create a multi set for each article links.
for articleTitle in articles:
allLinksMultiSet[articleTitle] = collections.Counter(
self.wiki.getLinks(articleTitle))
return self._findSharedLinks(allLinksMultiSet, articles, rankLimit)
def _selectLinks_PageRank(self, links, rankLimit):
"""
This is the page rank algorithm for selecting at most rankLimit items from a list of (link,freq) tuples.
The freq in the tuples corresponds to the bag of words frequencies.
Because the number of frequencies returned by the bag of words is usually in the order of ten and the frequencies
returned by the pageRank are in the order of thousands. Both of these should be normalized so that they can be
combined
Input parameters:
links: a list of tuples in the form of (Link,freq) in which Link is the title of Link and freq is the result of
the bag of words algorithm
rankLimit: The number of items that should be returned. In other words, the top rankLimit number of items.
Returns:
A list of link titles containing the top rankLimit items.
"""
#Normalize the bag of words frequencies
links = self._normalize(links)
#Calculate pageRankWeights by counting the backLinks
interimLinks = [(link, self._calculatePageRankLinkWeight(link))
for (link, freq) in links]
#Normalize the pageRank frequencies
interimLinks = self._normalize(interimLinks)
#Combine normalized bag of words and pageRank frequencies
interimLinks = self._combineFreqParameters(links, interimLinks)
#Sort and return the top rankLimit items
sortedLinks = sorted(interimLinks, key=lambda item: item[1])
#TODO remove this print statement for production
print "\n".join(
["%s=%s" % (link, freq) for (link, freq) in sortedLinks])
length = len(sortedLinks)
return [
link for (link, freq) in sortedLinks[length - rankLimit - 1:length]
]
def _calculatePageRankLinkWeight(self, link):
"""
This calculates the pageRank weights by counting the backLinks that go into a single Link. In other words
this function returns the number of pages that have links to this page.
Right now we only count a limited number of backlinks to prune out irrelevant big items (like God or Apple).
The number of backLinks to read is determined in the
WikiAdapter class under __CONTINUE_LIMIT.
Input parameters:
link: a single link to count the backlinks for
Returns:
A number corresponding to the number of pages that link to this page.
"""
return len(self.wiki.getBackLinks(link))
def _normalize(self, links):
"""
A simple normalization function that uses the mean of all the frequencies in the links to normalize frequencies.
if there are not a lot of links the normalization is not done and the links are returned as inputted.
Input parameters:
links: a list of (link,freq) tuples.
Returns:
A list of (link,freq) tuples in which freq is the normalized frequency.
"""
if links:
mean = float(sum([freq for (link, freq) in links]) / len(links))
links = [(link, float(freq / mean)) for (link, freq) in links]
return links
def _combineFreqParameters(self, list1, list2):
"""
This function combines the normalized frequencies of two lists passed into it.
The combining is done by just summing over both frequencies.
List1 and List2 should be the results of different algorithms
input Parameters:
List1: a list containing tuples of (link,freq).
List2: a list containing tuples of (link,freq).
Returns:
A list containing tuples of (link,freq) in which freq is the combined frequency.
"""
#zipped = [((linkA,freq1),(linkA,freq2)),((linkB,freq3),(linkB,freq4))...]
zipped = zip(list1, list2)
return [(combinedTuple[0][0],
combinedTuple[0][1] + combinedTuple[1][1])
for combinedTuple in zipped]