Cool, I'll look into ti and let you know if I manage to make something
useful. Thanks for the tips.

On Sun Jan 25 2015 at 12:47:52 PM Richard Eckart de Castilho <r...@apache.org>
wrote:

> Hi José,
>
> we had no need for such a method so far ;) The easiest way would probably
> be to copy the
> selectCovering method from uimaFIT and adjust it to catch all intersecting
> annotations.
> You can probably add an optimization to a selectIntersecting method which
> breaks the loop as soon as the begin offset of an annotation is larger than
> the end offset of your intersection range.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Richard
>
> On 24.01.2015, at 22:25, José Tomás Atria <jtat...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I am looking for the best approach to select all annotations of a given
> > type that intersect an annotation of a different type.
> >
> > I am aware of selectCovered and selectCovering, which, as far as I
> > understand, will select all annotations (of a given type) that cover
> ranges
> > of text which are, respectively, subsets or supersets of another
> > annotation. Is there a similar method for annotations that cover ranges
> > which merely _intersect_ with the range covered by a given annotation?
> >
> > What would the recommended way of achieving this?
> >
> > Any help would be apreciated. Thanks!
> > jta.
> >
> > --
> > entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem
>
>

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