PatternMatcher

Synopsis

Matches a regular expression-like pattern on the sequence of annotations in a given layer.

Description

PatternMatcher searches for pattern on the sequence of annotations in layer layer . Note that in a layer, annotations are sorted in increasing order of start boundary, then decreasing order of end boundary; the order is undefined for annotations with the exact same span.

For each match, PatternMatcher applies all actions specified by actions . Each action concerns a sub-group of the pattern, if no sub-group is specified then the action applies to the whole match.

Snippet

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<patternmatcher class="PatternMatcher">
    <actions></actions>
    <pattern></pattern>
</patternmatcher>

Mandatory parameters

actions

Actions to perform each time the pattern is matched on the annotation sequence. See MatchActionArray for all available actions.

pattern

Pattern to match see ElementPattern for pattern syntax.

Optional parameters

constantAnnotationFeatures

Constant features to add to each annotation created by this module.

constantRelationFeatures

Constant features to add to each relation created by this module.

constantTupleFeatures

Constant features to add to each tuple created by this module.

annotationComparator

Comparator to use when removing overlaps.

documentFilter

Only process document that satisfy this expression.

layer

Match the pattern on the annotations contained in this layer.

overlappingBehaviour

What to do if the layer contains overlapping annotations.

sectionFilter

Process only sections that satisfy this expression.

Deprecated parameters

layerName

Deprecated alias for layer .