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From: <Armin.Wegner@bka.bund.de>
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Subject: Calling an annotator from another annotator
Thread-Topic: Calling an annotator from another annotator
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Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 06:56:52 +0000
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Hi,

I like to call an annotator from another annotator as it uses annotatations=
 for which annotators already exist. Calling is not a problem, but setting =
the parameter is. Can this be done at all? How? Using uimaFIT the parameter=
 values are injected using the AnalysisEngineFactory.createPrimitive(). Doi=
ng so the parameters are set in the UIMA context of the outer annotator. Th=
e inner annotator has its own UIMA context, does it? How can the outer anno=
tator's context be accessed while creating the inner annotator? At first I =
thought that this could be done the same way as Philip Ogren has done with =
XWriterFileNamer and XWriter. You just set the parameters for your XWriterF=
ileNamer implmentation in the XWriter context. But this seems to be a littl=
e different as I don't instantiate a CasAnnototar_ImplBase object but creat=
e an annotator description which is than use to instantiate an AnalysisEngi=
ne object by AnalysisEngineFactory in uimaFit or UIMAFramework in UIMA itse=
lf. Do you have any suggestions? Or is it just me, not getting to understan=
d the UIMA way again?

Regards,

Armin