edu.uchsc.ccp.knowtator.util
Class ConsensusSet

java.lang.Object
  edu.uchsc.ccp.knowtator.util.ConsensusSet

public class ConsensusSet
extends Object

Author:

Philip V. Ogren This class does not represent a consensus set of annotations. It serves a class that helps manage a set of consensus annotations. When the menu item 'Create Consensus Set' is run an instance of 'knowtator set' will be created. Annotations in this set define a consensus set. When redundant annotations exist in the set we want to consolidate them. This is done by identifying that there is an annotation from each of the individual annotators that is exactly the same. We can then change the annotator to one of the annotations to the team annotator and discard the others. This class facilitates the consolidation of such redundant annotations - typically one text source at a time.

Nested Class Summary

class

ConsensusSet.ConsensusFrameAdapter

Constructor Summary

ConsensusSet(Set<SimpleInstance> annotations, SimpleInstance consensusSet, KnowtatorManager manager)

Method Summary

void	consolidateAnnotations()
void	consolidateAnnotations(SimpleInstance consensusAnnotation, SimpleInstance redundantAnnotation) This method consolidates two anntotations into one.
void	destroy()
protected void	finalize()
SimpleInstance	getTeamAnnotator()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ConsensusSet

public ConsensusSet(Set<SimpleInstance> annotations,
                    SimpleInstance consensusSet,
                    KnowtatorManager manager)
             throws ConsensusException

Throws:

ConsensusException

Method Detail

consolidateAnnotations

public void consolidateAnnotations(SimpleInstance consensusAnnotation,
                                   SimpleInstance redundantAnnotation)

This method consolidates two anntotations into one. It does this by removing one annotation from the consensus set (the redundantAnnotation) and making the other as annotated by the 'Team Annotator'. One of the important things that is done before the redundant annotation is deleted is to have the complex slot mentions whose value is the redundant annotation change their value to the consensusAnnotation. This is done with a call to replaceSlotValue.

Parameters:

consensusAnnotation - the annotation that will stick around

redundantAnnotation - the annotation that is going away

See Also:

replaceSlotValue(SimpleInstance, SimpleInstance)

consolidateAnnotations

public void consolidateAnnotations()

finalize

protected void finalize()

Overrides:

finalize in class Object

destroy

public void destroy()

getTeamAnnotator

public SimpleInstance getTeamAnnotator()