On 3/2/11 3:25 PM, Andreas Kahl wrote:
Anuj and Jan,
Thank you very much for your tips. I think, I will try the annotation-way:
Use an CollectionProcessingEngine to iterate all the Docs in my input-XML.
Instatiate a CAS with the input-XML as text.
Then run an Annotator converting all XML-Tags into Annotations (I think I am
going to set annotation.setBegin() and .setEnd() to something generic like 0).
Based on that I'm going to build up my Pipeline.
I'll keep you posted as soon as I have some results.
The idea of an annotation is really that it is bound to a span of text.
If you do
not want that, then just use a type which is directly derived from
Feature Structure.
Most text processing assumes that you have annotations which mark a
piece of text, then
retrieve the text, process it and output annotations.
Lets say you want to use a tokenizer, it needs an annotation (e.g. a
sentence) as input and might
output token annotations within the input annotation span.
Jörn
