Do you add those annotations to the CAS indexes right away or is that done as part of the close() method also?
Thanks, Thomas Ginter 801-448-7676 [email protected] > On Jul 16, 2015, at 12:27 PM, Richard Eckart de Castilho <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On 16.07.2015, at 19:46, Marshall Schor <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The usual way these kinds of things have been decided is to "guess" if the >> more >> likely scenario is one of a user error, or a user intent. Here, the user >> seemed >> to intend this. If this was supported, there might be other unintended >> consequences - such as setting a subject-of-analysis **after** some >> Annotations >> were made. > > Well, actually *that* is a case that should be considered supported. > > E.g. uimaFIT comes with a JCasBuilder class that allows to incrementally > initialize a CAS, e.g: > > JCasBuilder jb = new JCasBuilder(jCas); > jb.add("This sentence is not annotated. "); > jb.add("But this sentences is annotated. ", Sentence.class); > int begin = jb.getPosition(); > jb.add("And", Token.class); > jb.add(" "); > jb.add("here", Token.class); > jb.add(" "); > jb.add("every", Token.class); > jb.add(" "); > jb.add("token", Token.class); > jb.add(" "); > jb.add("is", Token.class); > jb.add(".", Token.class); > jb.add(begin, Sentence.class); > jb.close(); > > The annotations are added directly to the CAS while the strings are > added to an internal StringBuilder which is only set as the CAS > document text when close() is called. > > Very useful I might mention! I use the same technique in various readers. > > Cheers, > > -- Richard
