HashMap as type feature

2013-10-16 Thread Dr. Armin Wegner
Hi, I'd like to have a type feature that is a list of key-value pairs. The number of pairs is unknown. What's best for this? Is it even possible? Thanks, Armin

Re: HashMap as type feature

2013-10-16 Thread Richard Eckart de Castilho
Hi, you could define a feature structure e.g. StringStringMapEntry { String key String value } and store these in an FSList. Then, write additional convenience code around that which transforms this to/from a MapString, String. -- Richard On 16.10.2013, at 17:55, Dr. Armin Wegner

Re: HashMap as type feature

2013-10-16 Thread Dr. Armin Wegner
Hi Richard, thanks for the quick reply. But the answer is a little too short for me. Can you point me to an example or a documentation, please? I couldn't find it in the UIMA Tutorial and Developers' Guides. Did I miss it? Best, Armin On 10/16/13, Richard Eckart de Castilho r...@apache.org

Re: HashMap as type feature

2013-10-16 Thread Thomas Ginter
Armin, Our team does this with an annotation type designed to store feature vectors for Machine Learning applications. In this case we use a StringArray feature for the keys and a StringArray feature for the values. The StringArrays are pulled from a HashMapString, String vector variable and