Discontinuous annotations

[Karin Verspoor <Karin.Verspoor@UCHSC.edu>]

Why not have a DiscontinuousAnnotation which is a subtype of Annotation which has a member which is an array of Annotations?

Alternatively, perhaps a View (AnchoredView, probably) could be used for such groups of Annotations?  But a view isn't itself an Annotation.  This would seem to me to be suitable for capturing co-reference chains, but probably not intuitive for the case of a true discontinuous annotation, e.g. some named entity reference which may have some intervening extraneous terms in a specific text.

Karin

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Karin Verspoor, PhD
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