Re: Merging the output of multiple name finders

["jim.foobar" <ji...@gmail.com>]

What is happening with this issue? Is there any progress on the matter? 
I've been a bit busy the past week...
are you happy with the "NameFinderME.dropOverlappingSpans" method ad how 
it reasons about what span to keep and what to throw away?

Jim

ps: if yes - a previous email of mine with the same subject line, shows 
the code we're left with...


On 18/04/12 16:15, Jim - FooBar(); wrote:
> On 18/04/12 16:09, Jörn Kottmann wrote:
>> On 04/18/2012 05:07 PM, Jim - FooBar(); wrote:
>>> We are also not checking for same/different type when using this 
>>> "NameFinderME.dropOverlappingSpans" method...
>>> anyway i don't think that this will occur often so if you're happy 
>>> with this solution then I'm happy as well... :) 
>>
>> Its handling this case correctly. Isn't it?
>>
>> Jörn
>
> not really...this method is only concerned with offsets and ignores 
> the type...it will do the exact same thing regardless of whether the 2 
> spans are of the same type or not...basically it's doing the 
> simplistic thing you suggested this morning and keeping the earliest 
> span.
>
> Jim