H all, I noticed the SnowballAnnotator is extending the deprecated JTextAnnotator_ImplBase, have some unused imports and generics should be enabled. Moreover the initialize() method occasionally fails due to the AnnotatorContext object being null when run in a 2.3.1-SNAPSHOT distribution. I made a patch to make it extend JCasAnnotatorImpl_Base (and some little refactorings [1]) that fixed this situation, but I would like to know if anyone has experienced it and if have any objections on applying such a patch. Regards, Tommaso
[1] : https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1861
