org.apache.uima.cas.text
Interface AnnotationFS

All Superinterfaces:
AnnotationBaseFS, FeatureStructure
All Known Implementing Classes:
Annotation, DocumentAnnotation, SourceDocumentInformation

public interface AnnotationFS
extends AnnotationBaseFS

Interface for Annotation Feature Structures.


Method Summary
 int getBegin()
          Get the start position of the annotation as character offset into the text.
 String getCoveredText()
          Get the text covered by an annotation as a string.
 int getEnd()
          Get the end position of the annotation as character offset into the text.
 
Methods inherited from interface org.apache.uima.cas.AnnotationBaseFS
getView
 
Methods inherited from interface org.apache.uima.cas.FeatureStructure
clone, equals, getBooleanValue, getByteValue, getCAS, getDoubleValue, getFeatureValue, getFeatureValueAsString, getFloatValue, getIntValue, getLongValue, getShortValue, getStringValue, getType, hashCode, setBooleanValue, setByteValue, setDoubleValue, setFeatureValue, setFeatureValueFromString, setFloatValue, setIntValue, setLongValue, setShortValue, setStringValue
 

Method Detail

getBegin

int getBegin()
Get the start position of the annotation as character offset into the text. The smallest possible start position is 0, the offset of the first character in the text.

Returns:
The start position.

getEnd

int getEnd()
Get the end position of the annotation as character offset into the text. The end position points at the first character after the annotation, such that (getEnd()-getBegin()) == getCoveredText().length().

Returns:
The end position.

getCoveredText

String getCoveredText()
Get the text covered by an annotation as a string. If docText is your document text and annot an annotation, then annot.getCoveredText().equals(docText.substring(annot.getBegin(), annot.getEnd())).

Returns:
String


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