Hello all, There is a capabilities section in the descriptor for an annotator where one defines which annotations the annotator expects to find and which ones it produces. However, despite how useful this information is, I can't seem to find how it gets used (other than for documentation purposes).
In particular, I was wondering if there's some sort of verifier or something that can (or does) check whether an that produces annotations of type A has run before an annotator that expects annotations of type A. Also, it would be useful if there was a flow controller that used the capability information to call annotators in an order such that these dependencies are satisfied (like in the case just mentioned). Is there anything built into UIMA that uses this stuff? Thanks! --Anton
