Revision: 14986
          http://gate.svn.sourceforge.net/gate/?rev=14986&view=rev
Author:   nirajaswani
Date:     2012-01-10 16:31:52 +0000 (Tue, 10 Jan 2012)
Log Message:
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changes in the flexible gazetteer

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    userguide/trunk/gazetteers.tex
    userguide/trunk/recent-changes.tex

Modified: userguide/trunk/gazetteers.tex
===================================================================
--- userguide/trunk/gazetteers.tex      2012-01-10 15:51:32 UTC (rev 14985)
+++ userguide/trunk/gazetteers.tex      2012-01-10 16:31:52 UTC (rev 14986)
@@ -520,8 +520,7 @@
 The Flexible Gazetteer provides users with the flexibility to choose their own
 customized input and an external Gazetteer. For example, the user might want 
to replace
 words in the text with their base forms (which is an output of the 
Morphological
-Analyser) or to segment a Chinese text (using the Chinese Tokeniser) before
-running the Gazetteer on the Chinese text.
+Analyser) before running the Gazetteer.
 
 The Flexible Gazetteer performs lookup over a document based on the
 values of an arbitrary feature of an arbitrary annotation type, by using an
@@ -536,21 +535,22 @@
 
 \item Document -- the document to be processed
 
-\item \textbf{inputAnnotationSetName} The annotationSet where the Flexible
+\item \textbf{inputASName} The annotationSet where the Flexible
 Gazetteer should search for the AnnotationType.feature specified in the
 inputFeatureNames.
 
-\item \textbf{outputAnnotationSetName} The AnnotationSet where Lookup
+\item \textbf{outputASName} The AnnotationSet where Lookup
 annotations should be placed.
 
 Creation time parameters:
 
 \item \textbf{inputFeatureNames} -- when selected, these feature values are 
used to
-replace the corresponding original text. A temporary document is created from
-the values of the specified features on the specified annotation types. For
-example: for Token.string the temporary document will have the same content as
-the original one but all the SpaceToken annotations will have been replaced by
-single spaces.
+replace the corresponding original text.  For each feature, a temporary 
document is 
+created from the values of the specified features on the specified annotation 
types. For
+example: for Token.root the temporary document will have content of every 
Token 
+replaced with its root value.  In case of overlapping annotations of the same 
type in 
+the input, only the value of the first annotation is considered.  Here, please 
note that 
+the order of annotations is decided by using the gate.util.OffsetComparator 
class.
 
 \item \textbf{gazetteerInst} -- the actual gazetteer instance, which should run
 over a temporary document. This generates the Lookup annotations with features.
@@ -564,7 +564,6 @@
 annotations on the temporary document are converted to Lookup annotations on 
the
 original document. Finally the temporary document is deleted.
 
-
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 \sect[sec:gazetteers:listscollector]{Gazetteer List Collector}
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

Modified: userguide/trunk/recent-changes.tex
===================================================================
--- userguide/trunk/recent-changes.tex  2012-01-10 15:51:32 UTC (rev 14985)
+++ userguide/trunk/recent-changes.tex  2012-01-10 16:31:52 UTC (rev 14986)
@@ -29,6 +29,12 @@
 Ontology\_OWLIM2, Web\_Search\_Google and Web\_Search\_Yahoo. Documentation of 
obsolete plugins can
 now be found in Appendix~\ref{chap:obsolete-plugins}.
 
+The Flexible Gazetteer PR has been rewritten to provide a better and faster 
implementation. 
+The two parameters \texttt{inputAnnotationSetName} and 
\texttt{outputAnnotationSetName} 
+have been renamed to \texttt{inputASName} and \texttt{outputASName}, however 
the old
+applications with the old parameters should still work.  Please see Section 
\ref{sec:gazetteers:flexgazetteer} 
+for more details.
+
 \rcSubsect{December 2011}
 
 Segment Processing PR has two additional run-time parameters called 

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