Hello Marshall,
Thank you for the suggestion! This works for us! As
per your suggestion, we have now created an Aggregate Analysis Engine that
contains CAS Multiplier (Splitter), our original aggregate engine and CAS
Merger (to merge the results into one CAS at the end).
But the final merged CAS contains the child CAS'es (created in the
splitter) and the parent CAS as well. Is this expected? Any idea why?
We used CAS splitter and merger for a synchronous UIMA pipeline as well.
That does not give us the parent CAS in the final result (Merged CAS). Why
the difference?
Harshal
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 6:20 AM, Marshall Schor <m...@schor.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/6/2013 6:10 PM, Mathaeus Dejori wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'd like to use UIMA AS to annotate a large list of text segments.
> Instead
> > of passing each text segment individually to the AnalysisEngine I'd like
> to
> > pass the entire list at once.
> >
> > As far as I understand I can use the cas.setSofaDataArray() to pass a
> list
> > of Strings and get back Annotations that refer to particular segments.
> > However, in doing so I won't be able to use any of the existing
> Annotators
> > (e.g. Concept Mapper) as their process(cas, spec) function expects the
> > cas.getDocumentText().
> >
> > Is there a design pattern for uima to consume a list of strings, pass
> > individual elements to specific Annotators and combine all the results at
> > the end?
> If what you are trying to do is to take an input CAS which has a bunch of
> "strings" and send each one thru a pipeline, the normal UIMA design
> pattern for
> that is to use a CAS Multiplier at the start which gets as input the CAS
> with
> all the strings, and then puts each one into another CAS and send it
> through the
> pipeline. If the combining you want to do is to combine all the results
> into
> another CAS, then you can use another CAS Multiplier at the end which
> receives
> the individual string CASes, and accumulates results until all the parts
> are
> done, and then outputs a "result" CAS with the combined result.
>
> See
> http://uima.apache.org/d/uimaj-2.4.1/tutorials_and_users_guides.html#ugr.tug.cm
>
> -Marshall
>
