Standard parameter to disable type mapping

[reckart]

All readers/writers and components should have a standard switch which disables any type mapping (e.g. POS taggers and components which read POS annotations would only every generate the POS type, but not any sub-types like POS_NOUN).

When preparing data then then importing it into an annotation editor like WebAnno or INCEpTION, having the mapped types is counter productive because UIMA does not allow to change the type of an annotation. Simply deleting and recreating an annotation is also not sufficient because the annotation might be referenced by other annotations (e.g. the POS annotation is referenced from the "pos" feature of the Token annotation) and all these references would have to be updated as well to point to the new annotation. Thus, it is better in certain cases to entirely disable the type mapping and stick only to the main types (POS, NamedEntity, Lemma, etc.).

This entails that the requirement that the root annotation of constituency and dependency parse trees to be ROOT is relaxed and that they are represented as Constituent and Dependency with root being the tag value.

• Add the parameter
• Change mapping providers to respect parameter

Related issues

• StanfordParser ignores root dependencies #628 - StanfordParser ignores root dependencies
• #8 - WebAnno does not support DKPro Core elevated types webanno/webanno#1182 - WebAnno does not support DKPro Core elevated types
• CoNLL-U Export reproducibly throws on export inception-project/inception#198 - CoNLL-U Export reproducibly throws on export