That's right. BinaryTextRelations connect Annotations. ElementRelations connect Elements.
In practice we have only ever used Annotations and BinaryTextRelations. stephen On 10/21/13 2:20 PM, "Tim Miller" <[email protected]> wrote: >I'm not sure I understand the distinction between BinaryTextRelation and >ElementRelation types. Is it the difference between the abstract >relation and a particular text instantiation? > >On 10/17/2013 02:33 PM, Wu, Stephen T., Ph.D. wrote: >> +1 creation of additional relation types, both BinaryTextRelation and >> ElementRelation. >> >> stephen >> >> >> On 10/17/13 12:20 PM, "Tim Miller" >><[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> I noticed yesterday that the ctakes type system is missing some of the >>> types from the SHARP annotations. This causes an error when we try to >>> read in data with those types with our reader. I created a JIRA for the >>> issue here: >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CTAKES-250 >>> >>> Any thoughts on whether I should just implement them or is there some >>> reason to have a more detailed discussion? >>> >>> -- >>> Tim Miller, PhD >>> Postdoctoral Research Fellow >>> Children's Hospital Informatics Program >>> Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School >>> 617-919-1223 >>> >
