On 4/8/11 2:02 PM, Marshall Schor wrote:
ok, here's my mistakes, and some questions.
1) I didn't read the manual :-) (of course, most users won't, either)
2) I looked at all of the menu picks across the top, especially under "Edit",
but didn't find any way to switch which annotation is being shown. (I didn't
think to right click in the editor window).
I believe we should switch to the Cas Editor perspective when the
Annotation Editor
is opened, then all the other views will be visible. There is one view
which shows
the annotation types, and has check boxes to show/hide the annotations
across the
editor. Did you notice the "Annotation Styles" view?
3) I speed-read the first part of the manual, and discovered I was supposed to
right click in the window and switch the annotation that was being shown.
4) I expected that picking a type in that window would show all annotations of
that type, including subtypes - but it excludes the subtype, it seems. So for
the type "Annotation" (of which Room Number is a subtype - nothing is shown.
No it does not, do you think we should change that? Then a user might
see more then
he wants to see.
5) I wonder about the lack of namespaces in the pick list. This would make it
difficult if there were multiple types, in different namespaces, to pick the one
you might want.
Yes, in this case it might not be clear to the user. Sounds like we
should change it?
6) The menu identifier "Mode" didn't suggest to me that this was where to select
which annotation(s) were going to be shown.
It sets the mode, you can see additional annotations with the "Shown
Annotations" menu.
The mode type can be quicker edited than other types.
7) The overall editor name that appears when you go to a file in the package
explorer and right click and do "Open with" and there you see "Annotation
Editor" - when I first saw this I wondered if it was the CAS Editor, or maybe
some other plugin that had been installed, that was providing a way to look at
Java @annotations ... Maybe a better name is "UIMA XMI Editor" if it edits only
xmi - style CASes, or "UIMA CAS Editor" if it edits multiple kinds.
+1, for using a better name. I think it should also reflect the fact
that the Annotation Editor
can only edit text sofas.
8) Is there a way to view more than one type of annotation at a time?
Yes by marking them in the Shown Annotations menu or in the Annotations
Style view.
9) Is there a way to view feature structures that are not subtypes of
"Annotation" (that is, have no references back into the text)?
There is a view for that purpose, the Feature Structure View. There you
can select
the FS type and it then lists all FSes of that type. I guess we should
add Index Repository support.
Jörn
