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GATE MatchesAnnots Feature Output

I'm attempting to perform coreference using the GATE MatchesAnnots document feature, and I get the following output:

{null = [[866, 871, 872], [869, 873, 877, 879], [874, 895, 896]]}

Can anyone help me understand what this means? I'm assuming each of these arrays are each a coreference chain - but what are the numbers? Character start numbers? I'm a bit lost.

Solution

  • Question

    what are the numbers?

    Answer

    They are GATE annotation ids of the chained annotations.

    Explanation

    GATE document feature MatchesAnnots contains a map ( Map<String, List<List<Integer>>> ) with following content:

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