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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:11:41 -0500
From: "Eddie Epstein" <eaepstein@gmail.com>
To: uima-user@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: Additional Runtime Arguments
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Not sure if this will help, but the CAS supports a concept of multiple
"views", where each
view is itself a CAS object. The process(cas) method can then be
passed a specified view, so that the annotator only deals with a
subset of the entire CAS. Some have used views to deal with complex
documents, creating a view for each of several document parts and then
passing specified view(s) to the appropriate AE.

For more on CAS views, see
http://incubator.apache.org/uima/downloads/releaseDocs/2.2.2-incubating/docs/html/tutorials_and_users_guides/tutorials_and_users_guides.html#ugr.tug.mvs

Regards,
Eddie

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Thomas Polzin <Thomas.Polzin@mmodal.com> wrote:
> I probably missed something in the documentation but here is my problem:
>
>
> I'm trying to process a pretty complex structured document and I do not
> want to translate the entire structure into annotations. Instead I would
> like to pass some object containing this additional structure to the
> respective analysis engines. Note that a static object will not work.
> Also, I do not want pass this object to the engines when they are
> constructed/initialized. The best solution I came up with so far is to
> subclass the CAS object and then to downcast to it in the process( CAS
> cas) function. Does this make sense? Is there a better solution?
>
> Thanks so much in advance
>
> Thomas
>
>