gate

Interface SimpleAnnotation

All Superinterfaces:

Comparable<Object>, FeatureBearer, IdBearer, Serializable

All Known Subinterfaces:

Annotation

All Known Implementing Classes:

AnnotationImpl

public interface SimpleAnnotation
extends FeatureBearer, IdBearer, Comparable<Object>, Serializable

An Annotation is an arc in an AnnotationSet. It is immutable, to avoid the situation where each annotation has to point to its parent graph in order to tell it to update its indices when it changes.

Changes from TIPSTER: no ID; single span only. SimpleAnnotation was introduced to simplify the API of annotations

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
int	compareTo(Object o) Ordering
Node	getEndNode() The end node.
Node	getStartNode() The start node.
String	getType() The type of the annotation (corresponds to TIPSTER "name").

Methods inherited from interface gate.util.FeatureBearer

getFeatures, setFeatures

Methods inherited from interface gate.util.IdBearer

getId

Method Detail

getType

String getType()

The type of the annotation (corresponds to TIPSTER "name").

getStartNode

Node getStartNode()

The start node.

getEndNode

Node getEndNode()

The end node.

compareTo

int compareTo(Object o)
       throws ClassCastException

Ordering

Specified by:

compareTo in interface Comparable<Object>

Throws:

ClassCastException