problem creating Index Collection Descriptor File

I have three related questions that I decided to split up into three messages. I composed them as one email initially and decided I could be spawning a hard-to-traverse thread. Advanced apologies for the inundation. I am trying to create an Index Collection Descriptor File so that I can

finding annotations relative to other annotations

Is there any simple way to ask for the token 3 to the left of my current token? I can't find anything that is built into the default annotation index, and so I have defined an index for this in the descriptor file. In order to do this I define a feature in my token type that keeps track of

Re: UIMA internals memory footprint

Kirk True wrote: Hi Marshall, This reduces 4.6 MB down to 1 MB overhead for 100K annotations. That's awesome - thanks so much for looking into this! Just to double-check - will this make it into the 2.2 release? Thanks again, Kirk Yes, it should be there. -Marshall

Re: Human annotation tool for UIMA

My initial thought was to have a CasConsumer that loads annotations directly into Knowtator programmatically, and a CasInitializer that goes the other way. What remains is to have a way to translate/synchronize the Type System in UIMA with the class hierarchy / annotation schema in Knowtator