Sean Finan created CTAKES-493:
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Summary: Create typesystem type "Mention"
Key: CTAKES-493
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CTAKES-493
Project: cTAKES
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: All
Affects Versions: future enhancement
Reporter: Sean Finan
Assignee: Sean Finan
There are two types that are consistently used together: EventMention and
EntityMention. These are both subtypes of IdentifiedAnnotation. The code for
a dozens of annotators and writers is thus:
Collection<IdentifiedAnnotation> annotations = JCasUtil.select( JCas,
IdentifiedAnnotation.class);
Collection<IdentifiedAnnotation> wantedAnnotations =
for ( annotations) {
if ( instanceof EventMention | EntityMention ) \{ wantedAnnotations.add() }
}
The first call to JCasUtil iterates through the entire FS, then the second call
iterates through the returned sublist.
This would be much more efficient if there were one appropriate parent type
that could be returned from the first call, for instance a generic "Mention"
type.
True, at this point there isn't a single method that can apply to both mention
children and this may be poor OOD, but since they are "types" and not "classes"
and since it would add efficiency and clarity throughout the code I think that
it is worthwhile.
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