Peter, I think the email server doesn't let images through. Can you post an imgur link maybe? Tim
On Sun, 2020-08-30 at 14:35 -0700, Peter Abramowitsch wrote: > * External Email - Caution * > > Hi, > I was getting a StringIndexOutOfBoundsException in > DependencyUtil.doesSubsume(annot1, annot2) with exactly this > situation: > > negex annotator > the text begins "negative for <anything>" > > If the chunk negative for xyz is preceded by anything else, even a > space, the problem goes away. It also goes away when you choose > another style of negation. "no headache", for instance > > I've traced the problem back to some illegal entries in the jCAS You > can see from the image below that the ContextAnnotation's begin > offset is illegal. > > Clearly there's an off-by-one error and this triggered the exception > because in my example, the Annotation is created right from the 0th > char of my note text. But it occurred to me that in every other > case, where the annotation doesn't begin on the first character and > it doesn't throw an exception, it might cause downstream methods > like doesSubsume to give the wrong result because the begin/end > offsets are wrong. > > I'm not sure how to follow this up. But if anyone wants to tackle > it....? > > This is from HistoryAttributeClassifier beginning at line 274 > > > > >