[jira] [Commented] (UIMA-2947) Improve format of multi-word entries in dictionary files

["Marshall Schor (JIRA)" <de...@uima.apache.org>]

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Marshall Schor commented on UIMA-2947:
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When suggesting / making changes, please also consider "backwards compatibility".  I may be wrong (because I haven't really looked into it) but it seems that if you "remove multiWordSeparator" as an allowed thing, then many older, existing uses of the Dictionary Annotator may start to fail.  Did I misunderstand?
                
> Improve format of multi-word entries in dictionary files
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: UIMA-2947
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-2947
>             Project: UIMA
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Sandbox-DictionaryAnnotator
>         Environment: Linux
>            Reporter: Armin Wegner
>              Labels: XML,, dictionary
>
> Using a single character to separate tokens in a Dictionary Annotator's dictionary file is not XML like. It looks like a remnant from old comma-separated-value days. So remove multiWordSeparator from dictionaryMetaData and let an entry look like <entry><key><token>AOL</token><token>Mail</token></key></entry> or <entry><key><token>azbuz</token><token>.</token><token>com</token></key></entry>. By the way, what is <key> good for? Do we need it?

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