[UIMA-1863] Entity annotators enhance for AlchemyAPI Annotator

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.3.1Addons
• Component/s: Sandbox-AlchemyAPI Annotator
• Assignee: Tommaso Teofili
• Reporter: Tommaso Teofili
• Created: 04/Sep/10 14:57
• Updated: 06/Apr/11 10:18
• Resolved: 06/Apr/11 10:18

Description

A list of improvements has been discussed on the ML:

• When list of available entities change on alchemyAPI site the entity annotator could throw ClassNotFoundException while using reflection to implement the corresponding type, so we should get rid of it
• Define a BaseEntity for entities to avoid each of them having to define the same features inside the typeSystem
• Implement a method to find the text spans that refer to the entity and create the corresponding Annotations (binding them to the "parent" entity)