On 12/2/2010 11:17 AM, Andrea Turbati wrote:
> Il 02/12/2010 16:33, Marshall Schor ha scritto:
>> On 11/30/2010 9:44 AM, Andrea Turbati wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> I'm new to the UIMA AAE and I was able to create a "simple" AAE by putting
>>> different AE together without any real interaction between them. I'd like to
>>> go further and compose an AAE in which the type returned is not just the set
>>> of simple types from the AEs, but it is a new Type in which the elements are
>>> connected and interact in some way.
>>> So for example if I have 3 simple AEs:
>>>
>>> * The first recognises *first name*
>>> * The second the* last name*
>>> * The third the *title *(Mr. Miss, Mrs, etc.)
>>>
>>> I'd like to create an AAE in which I have as an output just one type that is
>>> able to identify for example "Mr. Andrea Turbati"as one annotation and not
>>> as
>>> three different ones.
>>>
>>> I'd like to do the composition not manually but from a java application at
>>> runtime.
>> I'm not certain what your question is, but this sounds similar to one of the
>> example annotators: MeetingAnnotator - it is an annotator that takes the
>> results
>> of 2 previous annotators, "TutorialDateTime" and RoomNumberAnnotator, and
>> makes
>> a new Meeting annotation, whose span is from the beginning of the earliest
>> previous annotation to the end of the latest one.
>>
>> You can see the source here:
>> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/uima/uimaj/trunk/uimaj-examples/src/main/java/org/apache/uima/tutorial/ex4/MeetingAnnotator.java?revision=933273&view=markup
>>
>> <http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/uima/uimaj/trunk/uimaj-examples/src/main/java/org/apache/uima/tutorial/ex4/MeetingAnnotator.java?revision=933273&view=markup>
>>
>>
>
> Thank you for the answer.
> I thought that in UIMA you could compose Type System using only an XML
> descriptor without having to write any new code. Because writing code is a
> "human task" and in my case I'm trying to create a tool that composes two or
> more AE and gives as output just an XML describing the AAE. Then I should be
> able to pass the single AEs and the descriptor of the AAE to another module
> which will annotate a text using the information from the AAE descriptor and
> the code of the AEs.
> So for example if I have an AE which is able to annotate last Name and another
> one that annotate Government title and in a text I find "President Obama", I'd
> like to have a single annotation for "President Obama" and not two separate
> one for each word.
You might be able to make such an "annotator". Here's some thoughts:
I guess it would need to be configured with some parameters: specifying the two
types you wanted to "combine" ("LastName" and "GovernmentTitle"), and maybe some
information about a "window" - a window of size 1 would get "President Obama"
but not "President Barack Obama". I think you need a window to disallow, for
instance, having "President" somewhere in the document, and Obama somewhere
completely unrelated to the first annotation.
You could probably make such a combining annotator, by generalizing the
MeetingAnnotator.
Would this do what you want?
-Marshall
