Token ArrayList for Match Info

[margaretha]

Match Info service returns token annotations as snippet in XML form. It would nice to have the token annotations also as an array.

For instance for the following snippet:

"snippet": "<span class=\"context-left\"><\/span><span class=
       \"match\"><span title=\"opennlp/p:PPER\">es<\/span> <span 
        title=\"opennlp/p:VAFIN\">war<\/span> <span title=\"opennlp/p:ART\">
        ein<\/span> <span title=\"opennlp/p:ADJA\">ärgerlicher<\/span> 
       <span title=\"opennlp/p:NN\">Anblick<\/span>; <span title=
        \"opennlp/p:ART\">die<\/span> <span title=\"opennlp/p:NN\">Fallbrücke
        <\/span> <span title=\"opennlp/p:VVFIN\">reichte<\/span> 
        <span title=\"opennlp/p:PTKNEG\">nicht<\/span> <span title=
        \"opennlp/p:APPR\">bis<\/span> <span title=\"opennlp/p:APPRART\">
        ans<\/span> <span title=\"opennlp/p:ADJA\">trockene<\/span> 
        ...

Suggestion:

{
    "tokens": [
        {"opennlp/p:PPER": "es"},
        {"opennlp/p:VAFIN": "war"},
        {"opennlp/p:ART": "ein"},
        {"opennlp/p:ADJA": "ärgerlicher"},
        {"opennlp/p:NN": "Anblick"},
        {"" : ";"}
        {"opennlp/p:ART": "die"},
        {"opennlp/p:NN": "Fallbrücke"},
        {"opennlp/p:VVFIN": "reichte"},
        {"opennlp/p:PTKNEG": "nicht"},
        {"opennlp/p:APPR": "bis"},
        {"opennlp/p:APPRART": "trockene"},
        {"opennlp/p:ADJA": "trockene"},
        ...
    ]
}

[Akron]

We could return koral:tokens. Your format has the problem that it only works for the chosen foundry/layer annotation, when there are no gaps at all. Also some token annotations have multiple supported annotations.

[Akron]

What is the use case?

[margaretha]

@morckx Could you please explain the use case?

[margaretha]

I have updated the description. Thanks for the hints, @Akron Nils. Is there a gap when e.g. a comma appears?

The keys and values should be switched. Is the following suggestion better?

Suggestion 2:

{
    "tokens": [
        {"es": ["opennlp/p:PPER"]},
        {"war": ["opennlp/p:VAFIN"]},
        {"ein": ["opennlp/p:ART"]},
        {"ärgerlicher": ["opennlp/p:ADJA"]},
        {"Anblick": ["opennlp/p:NN"]},
        {";" : []}
        {"die": ["opennlp/p:ART"]},
        {"Fallbrücke": ["opennlp/p:NN"]},
        {"reichte": ["opennlp/p:VVFIN"]},
        {"nicht": ["opennlp/p:PTKNEG"]},
        {"bis": ["opennlp/p:APPR"]},
        {"trockene": ["opennlp/p:APPRART", "opennlp/p:ADJA"]},
        ...
    ]
}

[Akron]

Yes, that is more flexible. In token lists only tokens appear, so it depends on if the comma was indexed as a token or not.
The array wouldn't be very efficient though, as single key maps could be costly, depending on the parsing software. But let's wait for the use case.