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Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 18:31:06 -0500
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Subject: Re: Is is possible to pass cas view to the process method of an
 annotator?
From: Burn Lewis <burnlewis@gmail.com>
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> One more question on a related note: Is it possible to set sofa mappings
in
> the Flow Controller? From all the code usages that I have come across it
> seems that sofa mappings can only be set while building the
AnalysisEngine.

No, but the FC could modify the CAS, e.g. set some FS to say what view an
annotator should switch to.
If you can modify the annotator code it's very easy to make it sofa aware
and, say, iterate over all views, or all matching some prefix, or those
specified in a config param.

~Burn


On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Richard Eckart de Castilho <
eckart@ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote:

> Am 03.12.2012 um 23:32 schrieb Himanshu Gahlot <
> himanshu.gahlot86@gmail.com>:
>
> > One more question on a related note: Is it possible to set sofa mapping=
s
> in
> > the Flow Controller? From all the code usages that I have come across i=
t
> > seems that sofa mappings can only be set while building the
> AnalysisEngine.
>
>
> Good question. I don't know. I think it's not possible since the JavaDoc =
of
> the reconfigure() methods says the method is used only to update a
> component
> with new parameters. Also, the sofa mappings are read directly from the
> component descriptor which is afaik not accessible by a flow controller.
>
> I think sofa mappings can only be configured "statically". You probably
> could dynamically create a nested pipeline in your flow controller. I
> didn't use flow controllers very much so far.
>
> Maybe someone else has a better idea.
>
> -- Richard
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