Hi Burn and thanks for your suggestion that makes a lot of sense. Do you think that such a CAS multiplier can be used in a CPE? I guess no because as far as I know due to the management of the CAS pool of the CPE it is not possible to have components that produce CASes in the flow of a CPE.
Olivier > -----Message d'origine----- > De : Burn Lewis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Envoyé : lundi 21 juillet 2008 20:23 > À : [email protected] > Objet : Re: UIMA chunking > > One approach is to use another CAS Multiplier for the merge > ... it would take in the N chunks and produce an output CAS > only when the N-th has been processed. Any later processing > would be independent of the chunking that preceded it. This > merging CM could also handle any out-of-order segments that > can occur if you scale out your annotators. The CasCopier > class makes it relatively easy to copy all FeatureStructures > and update their offsets as necessary. > > Burn. >
