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GATE - general achitecture for text engineering - is open source software capable of solving almost any text processing problem. This artifact enables you to embed the core GATE Embedded with its essential dependencies. You will able to use the GATE Embedded API and load and store GATE XML documents. This artifact is the perfect dependency for CREOLE plugins or for applications that need to customize the GATE dependencies due to confict with their own dependencies or for lower footprint.

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/*
 *  SimpleAnnotation.java
 *
 *  Copyright (c) 1995-2012, The University of Sheffield. See the file
 *  COPYRIGHT.txt in the software or at http://gate.ac.uk/gate/COPYRIGHT.txt
 *
 *  This file is part of GATE (see http://gate.ac.uk/), and is free
 *  software, licenced under the GNU Library General Public License,
 *  Version 2, June 1991 (in the distribution as file licence.html,
 *  and also available at http://gate.ac.uk/gate/licence.html).
 *
 *  Hamish Cunningham, 19/Jan/00
 *
 *  $Id: SimpleAnnotation.java 17649 2014-03-13 15:04:17Z markagreenwood $
 */

package gate;

import gate.util.FeatureBearer;
import gate.util.IdBearer;

import java.io.Serializable;

/** An Annotation is an arc in an AnnotationSet. It is immutable, to avoid
  * the situation where each annotation has to point to its parent graph in
  * order to tell it to update its indices when it changes.
  *  Changes from TIPSTER: no ID; single span only.
  *
  * SimpleAnnotation was introduced to simplify the API of annotations
  */
public interface SimpleAnnotation
extends FeatureBearer, IdBearer, Comparable