You can use CasCreationUtil.mergeTypeSystems(...) to merge multiple TSDs
into one and then pass it to the JCasFactory (or to
CasCreationUtil.createCas(...))
Cheers,
-- Richard
On 13.05.2014, at 18:15, Tiziano Lorenzetti <tiziano.lorenze...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> You got the point. I didn't tell UIMA to use my type system. In fact,
> previously, I created the CAS as follow:
>
> JCas jcas = JCasFactory.createJCas();
>
> and then I executed the engine with a simple pipeline.
>
> SimplePipeline.runPipeline(jcas, ae);
>
> Now I've found a solution: I create the TypeSystemDescription in a manager
> class, and I tell UIMA to use it
>
> JCas jcas = JCasFactory.createJCas(tsd);
>
> It works. The only thing remaining is to tell UIMA to use all the type
> systems, not only the one I specified...but I'll figure it out.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> 2014-05-13 17:46 GMT+02:00 Richard Eckart de Castilho <r...@apache.org>:
>
>> How do you create the CAS and/or your reader/analysis engines/pipelines?
>> Or more specifically: how do you tell UIMA to actually use your type
>> system?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> -- Richard
>>
>> On 13.05.2014, at 15:55, Tiziano Lorenzetti <tiziano.lorenze...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>> I'm new to UIMA and I'm trying to develope an annotator that creates
>>> dinamically a type system with serveral feature structure.
>>> To accomplish this, the annotator does:
>>>
>>> ...
>>> TypeSystemDescription tsd =
>>> TypeSystemDescriptionFactory.createTypeSystemDescription(new String[0]);
>>> tsd.addType("it.uniroma2.art.ExcelAnnotation", "",
>> "uima.tcas.Annotation");
>>> TypeDescription type = tsd.getType("it.uniroma2.art.ExcelAnnotation");
>>> type.addFeature("newUIMAFeature", "", "uima.cas.String");
>>> ...
>>>
>>> In another annotator, I try to access this type system and its features
>> in
>>> this way:
>>>
>>> TypeSystem ts = aCAS.getTypeSystem();
>>> Iterator<Type> types = ts.getTypeIterator();
>>> Iterator<Feature> features = ts.getFeatures();
>>>
>>> but neither the type system and its features are present. How could I
>> reach
>>> my goal?
>>>
>>> Thank you all.
>>>
>>> Tiziano Lorenzetti
>>
>>
