I (desprately) need an application that can make creating xcas files easy -- the CAS Editor Eclipse plugin in the UIMA Sandbox looks like it would do this, however, it seems to be very cumbersome to use. I've outlined the major issues I'm having in the hopes that I'm just overlooking something, and these have actually been resolved. If not, I'd like to try implementing them myself, so any suggestions would be great :)
The problems: I haven't been able to get the current svn version to create a CAS project correctly (I can't find any way to add a typesystem, or specify corpus folders via the UI). I was able to do this with an older stand-alone RCP version of the Cas Editor, so I copied a project from there, but that's not a long-term solution. I have also been unable to find a way to add annotations to a document, or create a new xcas file. (I can create a file named foo.xcas, in a corpus folder, but it is just a plain text file -- there doesn't seem to be a 'new xcas file' option that will populate the file with the proper boilerplate. Lastly, adding and tweaking annotations is very cumbersome. I was hoping for a ui that would let the use select regions of text, and add an annotation on the selected area, but at best, I've only been able to create an annotation of length 0, and offset 0, and then shift it manually though a different view in the CAS Editor. I've checked the open JIRA bugs here: http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&mode=hide&pid=12310570&sorter/order=DESC&sorter/field=priority&resolution=-1&component=12312008 and nothing related to these issues seems to be outstanding. Thanks! Rogan
