Dear all, As we needed to integrate a rule-based analysis engine into our UIMA framework, we ended up using RUTA. The package was encouraging, we proceeded well with projecting our ideas into RUTA (thanks to the comprehensive documentation).
We also saw that there are efforts to offer RUTA in plain Java code for developers, ignoring the delivered workbench. We could integrate it well with our modified type system, it is finally running. But, and that's the reason for this email, currently we are stuck with extracting some information from our objects, which is not represented as simple feature. Leaving out the option to introduce major changes to our codes and not liking the idea of permanent workarounds, we were wondering if (and if not maybe when) there is the possibility to generically call methods on given Java objects. Precisely, we have objects with attributes being (linked from other) objects, plus respective getter methods. So, the information we need from our objects is retrievable by calling a getter X.getA, resulting in (background) object A which in turn knows a method .getB, resulting in the desired B (or more precisely: its string Z): ### Example ### Type X (extends Annotation, has offsets) Type A (extends TOP, has no offsets) Type B (extends TOP, has no offsets) String Z How to call "X.getA().getB().getZ()"? ############## It appeared that RUTA is capable by some whatever (UIMA-?)magic to get e.g. the covered text of a text annotation by "X.coveredText", although the object only knows a "getCoveredText" method. Let's call it a 'pseudo-feature'. No idea how generic this is, but: if just querying "X.A" RUTA seems to do well, ultimately receiving A. While A is an object (simple data type expected, like integer and string?) everything stops. So no obvious chance to receive our B. Is there an easy, somewhat 'native' way to deal with object-derived data like in the case described above? Thanks in advance! Sebastian --- Sebastian Schaaf, M.Sc. Bioinformatics Fraunhofer-Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SCAI) Department of Bioinformatics Schloss Birlinghoven D-53754 Sankt Augustin Room: C3-233 Tel.: +49 2241 14 2280 Email: sebastian.sch...@scai.fraunhofer.de Internet: http://www.scai.fraunhofer.de/