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I have a GATE document with a string like that:

The running back Ezekiel Elliott sprinted and rumbled etc.

I want to annotate this whole string with a text annotation. I'm looking for a JAPE rule but really don't know how to annotate the whole document using the start and end of the string like that: enter image description here

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  • It's also possible to do it by creating a new GATE PR and using this JAVA code: `AnnotationSet inputAs = document.getAnnotations(inputASName); AnnotationSet outputAs = document.getAnnotations(outputASName); long startOffset = inputAs.firstNode().getOffset(); long endOffset = inputAs.lastNode().getOffset(); try { outputAs.add(startOffset,endOffset,"Tweet", features); } catch (InvalidOffsetException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); }` – Chester Mc Allister Jan 15 '15 at 15:35
  • But if you use `long startOffset = inputAs.firstNode().getOffset(); long endOffset = inputAs.lastNode().getOffset();` then the output would be dependent on the content of `inputAs`. It will **not annotate the whole document** but the whole `inputAs` only. And it fails for `NullPointerException` when the `inputAs` is empty. – dedek Mar 16 '15 at 07:40

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I do not recommend using JAPE for this task, because there are no input annotations to start with. But you can do it easily with Groovy scripting PR

outputAS.add(0L, doc.content.size(), "Text", gate.Utils.featureMap())
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You can use doc.getFeatures().put() method to add new features to a document. For example, below lines of code give a field category and score for the document.

doc.getFeatures().put("category","fiction");
doc.getFeatures().put("score",13);

Refer to this slide set. It tells us how to use JAPE to use document features.

https://gate.ac.uk/sale/talks/gate-course-may11/track-3/module-10-advanced-ie/module-10-advanced-ie.pdf

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    This is not the answer of my question. This response provides new features for the document but what I need is to add annotation to the document. – Chester Mc Allister Feb 17 '15 at 20:36