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Subject: RE: [uima] Re: [CAS Specification Subgroup] Getting Started

From: "Scott Songlin Piao" <scott.piao@manchester.ac.uk>
To: "Eric Nyberg" <ehn+@cs.cmu.edu> , "Sophia.ananiadou@manchester.ac.uk"<Sophia.ananiadou@manchester.ac.uk> , "tgoetz@de.ibm.com"<tgoetz@de.ibm.com> , "ehn@cs.cmu.edu" <ehn@cs.cmu.edu> , Ngan<nltngan@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> , "carl.madson@sri.com" <carl.madson@sri.com>, "kano@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp" <kano@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> ,"j.tsujii@manchester.ac.uk" <j.tsujii@manchester.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 12:06:50 +0000

Hi,

Here is my comment on the regional reference of Annotation type (section 5.1).

1) According to Fig. 3 (Sofa Reference and Regional Reference), the Annotation type itself does not have regional reference features, it only has sofa reference. The paragraph above Fig. 3 says that any subtype of the Annotation MAY define how the regional reference is implemented. Does it imply that, by definition, the Annotation is not necessarily linked to certain region of the data? This seems to conflict against the general definition of Annotation as a type linked to certain region.

2) By allowing the freedom for subtypes of Annotation to define the way the regional reference is implemented, it may result in specialized implementations of the regional reference, which may potentially cause problem for interoperability.

3) As have been mentioned in previous discussions already, the multi-region reference is an issue to be resolved.

Best regards

Scott Piao

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