During a document preparation stage, a number of annotations were added
to the document. You can verify that the preprocessing went ok as
follows:
- Click on the check box to the left of
'agent' under MPQA annotations. Two
zero-length agent annotations, for agents with id=implicit and id=w
(writer), will show up in the Annotations frame at the bottom of your
GATE window. They will be difficult to see in the upper text box.
- Click on the check box for
'direct-subjective'. You will see
one zero-length annotation, starting and ending at 0.
- Hide these annotations from view by unmarking the checkboxes.
- Click on the check boxes for the
'objective-speech-event' and
'inside' annotation types. Default
'objective-speech-event' and
'inside' annotations were added for
the writer only. These annotations should now be listed in the
Annotations frame at the bottom of the screen.
- Click on the "Start" column heading in
the Annotations frame. This will sort the listed annotations in
ascending order by starting byte. The initial default annotations of
'objective-speech event' for the
writer are zero-span annotations at the beginning of each sentence.
Each 'inside' annotation for the
writer spans an entire sentence (or at least a sentence as delineated
by GATE.)
- Select an 'inside' annotation
from the list. The span for that annotation will flash in the document
window.
- Hide these annotations from view by unchecking the
'on' and
'in' checkboxes.
- There are also 'split'
annotations added by GATE's sentence splitter. Show
these now by clicking on the 'split'
checkbox. On what to do about bad sentence splits, Pitt users may
consult the annotation FAQ on the Pitt Wiki.
J. Ruppenhofer