Hi, To confirm your configuration, an aggregate AE contains two Cas multipliers, one to split and a second to merge large documents. This AAE is itself contained in a larger aggregate. The desired behavior is that the inner AAE should return the merged CASes, but not the split CASes. Of course the original input CASes must also be returned.
For this scenario the inner AAE itself must be declared to be a Cas multiplier, because the intent is for it to return new CASes. The inner AAE's flow controller will have to specify that split CASes be dropped using "new FinalStep(true)", but merged CASes be returned via "new FinalStep(false)" or just "new FinalStep()". Is this the intended configuration? Regards, Eddie On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Valkyrie Savage<[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, all, > > I'm working on a project involving UIMA, and I've run into some difficulties > that I can't figure out. This is my first month working with UIMA, so I am > admittedly not well-versed in all its components and interactions, but I'll > try to describe my problem as best I can. I'm running UIMA 2.2.2-incubating > with Java 1.6 inside of Eclipse Ganymede. > > The project involves processing rather large documents, and the in-house > components that I'm using have difficulty reading in a book-length chunk of > text at a time. For this reason, I've developed a very simple CAS > multiplier; it takes in a CAS that contains Segment annotations and generates > a new CAS for each Segment. This multiplier is contained in an aggregate AE, > and the other components of the AE are used for adding a few new annotations. > At the end of the aggregate is a simple CAS demultiplier; it is based > heavily on the example in org.apache.uima.examples.casMultiplier, except that > I hardcoded the tags that I want to copy across the demultiplying. > > The problem that I am coming across is that the split CASes are being tagged > correctly and merged correctly, but for whatever reason the merged CAS is not > the one that is being sent on through the rest of the pipeline after this > aggregate AE. I have a simple CAS printer running at the end of the next() > function of my demultiplier that shows that only the tags that I wanted are > being retained after the merge, but they appear again if I add an > AnnotationWriter in the next step of the pipeline. I read about Flow > Controllers, and it seems that the original CAS should be dropped from the > pipeline by default, since new CASes are being created from it (I am not > using any kind of user-defined Flow Controller), but that doesn't seem to be > happening. None of the new tags added in the Aggregate AE are being > preserved, but all the tags that are supposed to be stripped out are being > preserved. > > If there's more information needed, I'll be happy to provide it. As I > mentioned, I'm new to UIMA, and I'm not sure how to go about trying to debug > this. > > Thank you! > > Valkyrie Savage >
