[UIMA-3661] Ruta: specification for "Filter & Retain"

• Type: Wish
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.1.0ruta
• Component/s: Ruta
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Martin Toepfer
• Created: 28/Feb/14 16:22
• Updated: 26/May/19 14:16

Description

It would be nice if we had a specification for inference with filtered and retained types, as well as some options for handling filtered/retained types (covered text vs. annotations).

For instance, I am trying to merge SegmentElement annotations into Segment annotations (Segment is roughly SegmentElement+). I am not interested in parenthesis or colons, so I add them to the filtered types. However, I have SegmentElements that contain parenthesis, thus, I add SegmentElements to retained types. Nevertheless, not all SegmentElements are used, because some SegmentElements end with closing parenthesis, e.g., "XY (KQ)", which is a valid element in my case.

At the moment, I cannot use filter/retain for this problem. Changes may affect many parts of the inference, however, I think that it would be a very nice feature for UIMA Ruta 3.0.