Hi Luca, I believe the annotators that are provided in the UIMA Addons and in the UIMA Sandbox are a rather loose and sometimes incoherent collection. I believe this is partly an effect of the UIMA project itself always rejecting to offer a default type system suggestion. It seems to me that providing types and a coherent collection of interoperable components has always been deferred to other projects.
There are various UIMA component collections that each offer a type system and a set of analysis components designed to work with this type system. These components also tend to share other common design traits, e.g. common parameters, approaches to view handling, etc. These are the collections I know of (in alphabetical order): - Apache cTAKES - for the medical domain http://ctakes.apache.org - ClearTK - general purpose https://code.google.com/p/cleartk/ - DKPro Core - general purpose https://code.google.com/p/dkpro-core-asl/ - JCoRe - bioinformatics touch http://www.julielab.de/Resources/NLP+Tools.html - U-Compare - general purpose http://nactem.ac.uk/ucompare/ uimaFIT originated from the contexts of ClearTK and later DKPro Core. These collections build heavily on uimaFIT and support its style best. Maybe this can give you some further orientation if you are looking for more a more coherent offer of analysis components. Cheers, -- Richard Disclaimer: My own work is focussing on DKPro Core and uimaFIT. On 03.02.2014, at 12:14, Luca Foppiano <l...@foppiano.org> wrote: > HI Richard, > there is no special reason, I didn't know I could have used the sofa > mappings. I haven't arrived that far. > > Anyway, as a matter of principle, I think Whitespace and Dictionary are > likely to be used together as exercise, therefore I found quite complicated > to figure out how to chain them, therefore having similar approaches (both > using parameters) would simplify the solution. > > I'm not sure but I imagine that the Whitespace annotator could use the sofa > mapping as well. > > Cheers > Luca > > On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 8:26 PM, Richard Eckart de Castilho > <r...@apache.org>wrote: > >> Hi Luca, >> >> is there a specific reason that you chose to make the sofa names a >> parameter instead of using sofa mappings? >> >> Cheers, >> >> -- Richard >> >> On 31.01.2014, at 16:58, Luca Foppiano <l...@foppiano.org> wrote: >> >>> Dear all, >>> I've created a small change (copy-pasted from the Whitespace AE) to >> allow the Dictionary Annotator to operate on SOFAs different from the >> default one. >>> >>> Basically it works as the Whitespace Annotator, the parameter name is >> called sofaNames. If it is accepted I will update the documentation >> accordingly. >>> >>> Regards >>> Luca > > -- > Luca Foppiano > > Software Engineer > +31615253280 > l...@foppiano.org > www.foppiano.org
