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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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/*
 *  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).
 *
 *  Created on Jul 25, 2005
 *  
 *  $Id: AnnotationFactory.java 7452 2006-06-15 14:45:17Z ian_roberts $
 *
 */
package gate.annotation;

import gate.Annotation;
import gate.AnnotationSet;
import gate.Node;
import gate.FeatureMap;

/**
 * Factory used to create annotations in an annotation set.
 * 
 * @author Ken Williams
 */
public interface AnnotationFactory
{
  /**
   * Adds a new AnnotationImpl to the given set.
   * @param set the set to which the new annotation will be added
   * @param id the ID to use for the new annotation
   * @param start the starting node for the new annotation
   * @param end the ending node for the new annotation
   * @param type the type of the new annotation
   * @param features the features for the new annotation
   */
  public Annotation createAnnotationInSet(AnnotationSet set, Integer id,
                                          Node start, Node end, String type,
                                          FeatureMap features);
}