oops, slight correction:
On 9/26/2013 11:23 AM, Marshall Schor wrote:
> To handle the use cases briefly described on the user list for selectively
> skipping some annotators in an aggregate, based on some externally supplied
> configuration data, I'd like to propose something along these lines:
>
> * Add to the existing element <delegateAnalysisEngine key="[String]"> one or
> two
> additional attributes. One would be "skip=${xxx}" and the other would be its
> inverse (for improved readability, only, not logically needed): "run=${xxx}",
> where the value of the parameter would need to be "true" or "false" (or "yes"
> or
> "no").
>
> The parameter could be written literally as "true", etc., but also could be
> written using the standard variable naming syntax used elsewhere in the
> descriptors, and would be resolved by settings in the now-standard "external
> overrides" files used by UIMA. This means that the external overrides would
> continue to be a place where all of the specific configuration info for a
> particular "run" could be placed, together.
>
> The implementation would do nothing new if the parameters were indicating to
> run
> the delegate, but if they were indicating it should be skipped or not run,
> then
> the effect would be as if the delegate had been edited out of the xml
> descriptor.
>
> This would satisfy some pleas from some user groups for help in managing their
> descriptors across various related experiments.
>
> An example: a user might have a delegate which came in two forms: one to run
> "locally", and the other to run "remote".
>
> They could then include both descriptors in the aggregate, and have only one
> of
> them "active", by coding:
>
> <delegateAnalysisEngine key="NE-detector" run="NE-Detector-local"> ...
<delegateAnalysisEngine key="NE-detector" run="${NE-Detector-local}"> ...
> </delegateAnalysisEngine>
> <delegateAnalysisEngine key="NE-detector" skip="NE-Detector-local"> ...
<delegateAnalysisEngine key="NE-detector" skip="${NE-Detector-local}"> ...
> </delegateAnalysisEngine>
>
> WDYT?
>
> -Marshall
>
