Dear Marshall,

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Marshall Schor <[email protected]> wrote:

> The document analyzer has a "feature" that only shows types that are
> declared to
> be "outputs" in the capabilities section of the descriptor that it is
> running.
>

Yes, we discovered that "feature". But thanks for mentioning that, I think
this is useful also for others.

However, our question of how and whether non-Annotation-derived types are
visualized in the document analyzer is still not really answered.

We set both the mention type and the relation itself as output in
the capabilities page.

However, if we run the document analyzer, the relation is only 'visible'
whenever we make Relation a subtype of Annotation and set the end/begin of
the relation to the end/begin of the mention, respectively. But this
obviously  implies that for the relation the whole substring between the
two mentions is highlighted, and not just (as we would wish) the two
mentions themselves (as an annotation has only one end/begin).
On the contrary, if we don't set the end/begin of the relation, then it's
not shown at all, not even despite the fact that the relations' two
features (the two entities) have each begin/end properly set. In more
detail, the "relation" checkbox is shown, but by enabling it nothing is
'highlighted'
The same holds if we make Relation a subclass of TOP directly, still with
two features (mention1 and mention2 which are Annotation types with proper
begin/end set). We don't see it in the document analzyer.

Thus, is it the case that such 'abstract' types (with what I mean
non-Annotation-derived types and hence types without begin/end) are simply
not shown in the document analyzer?
(thus to 'see' them we have to use the debugger?) We'd simply like to find
out if this is the case or we do miss something.

Here is an illustration from the UIMA which shows what we'd like to have:
http://uima.apache.org/d/uimaj-2.4.0/overview_and_setup.html#ugr.ovv.conceptual.aes_annotators_and_analysis_results

Thanks a lot for your help.

B.


>
> So - just add the types you wish to show to that.  See
>
> http://uima.apache.org/d/uimaj-2.4.0/tutorials_and_users_guides.html#ugr.tug.aae.testing_your_annotator
> and scroll to the bottom of the section and read the "Note".
>
> -Marshall
>
>
> On 7/9/2012 8:43 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Burn Lewis <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> We created a type system for a project that included entries for
> Relations
> >> and RelationMentions ... you may wish to check GaleEntityTypes.xml in
> the
> >> GALE Multi-Modal Example in the Apache UIMA Addons and Sandbox.
> >>
> >> Thanks for this hint.
> >
> >> You may find it easier to view TOP-derived types such as Relation with
> the
> >> CAS Visual Debugger
> >>
> > But is it actually the case that the document Analyzer visualizes
> > only Annotation-derived types?
> > Thus any TOP-derived type (like Relation) will not be shown in the
> document
> > Analyzer, even though it might contain references to Annotation-derived
> > types (like the two entity mentions that contain begin/end tokens)?
> >
> > Hence, to actually visualize TOP-derived types I need to use the CAS
> visual
> > debugger, there's no way to have them in the document analyzer?
> >
> > Thanks.
> > B.
> >
> >
> >> ~Burn.
> >>
>
>
>

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