dkpro-core's BreakIteratorSegmenter (rather: its base class) takes the same approach. It allows you to specify that segmentation should occur within "zones", defined by some other annotation type.
https://code.google.com/p/dkpro-core-asl/source/browse/de.tudarmstadt.ukp.dkpro.core-asl/trunk/de.tudarmstadt.ukp.dkpro.core.api.segmentation-asl/src/main/java/de/tudarmstadt/ukp/dkpro/core/api/segmentation/SegmenterBase.java Usage: pipeline.add(createEngineDescription(BreakIteratorSegmenter.class, BreakIteratorSegmenter.PARAM_ZONE_TYPES, new String[] { MyZoneAnnotation.class.getName() })); Cheers, Oli -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Ginter [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 2:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Restricting a aggregate engine to a substring or mention We do this by having a parameter for some of our standard annotators, like our RegexAnnotator, that allows the user to specify an annotation type. If a type is specified then the operations of the annotator are restricted to the covered text of the annotation type instances specified. If no annotation type is provided then the entire document is assumed. In that way we can have annotators that perform some logic to find the regions of interest and then the subsequent annotators only operate on those regions. Thanks, Thomas Ginter 801-448-7676 [email protected] On Jun 12, 2014, at 4:00 AM, Dr. Armin Wegner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > > Is there an UIMA component which restricts an aggregated analysis > engine to a substring of the document text or to mentions of a given > annotation type? That is, is there a UIMA aquivalent to GATE's Segment > Processing PR? > > Thanks, > Armin
