I'm running Ruta as an annotator in a more complex pipeline that interleaves Ruta steps and other annotators.
I'm seeing some Ruta rules hang the engine. I can fix bad rules manually, but a crash of the entire system is not acceptable. Is there a way to put a time out on the rule application? Also, some rules are scoped at sentence or paragraph levels. If there is a time out, it would be nice to contain the failure to its scope rather than have the entire document fail processing. I thought about implementing this by creating a special-use jcas on the desired scope, populating it with its annotations, calling the Ruta script on them in a sandbox, and then copying the annotations back out upon successful completion. Any thoughts? Thanks, Tom
