On 04/17/2012 05:00 PM, Jim - FooBar(); wrote:
Could you name a few of the "applications" that cannot deal with
overlapping/intersecting spans ???
- UIs are easier to make when they assume they are not overlapping
- Inserting overlapping names in a Parse tree is not possible
- Annotation guidelines often say they should not overlap and therefore you
don't want to produce overlapping names
- Data formats which cannot represent overlapping annotations
Anyway the point is that a user might assume that names do not overlap
and then
they write code which cannot deal with this case. Therefore they need to
resolve
overlapping names in some way.
Jörn
