Make BratReader more forgiving #1443
Description
BratReader is currently very unforgiving. I propose to make the following improvements to it.
- Create a BratRead without having to provide mappings.
- BratReader would already know mappings for the Annotations defined in the standard dkpro-core type system (ex: Person)
- If you provide a PARAM_MAPPING, those mappings would be ADDED to the default ones
- If the .ann file contains a label that is defined in neither of the default or PARAM_MAPPING mappings, it will use a "catch-all" Annotation type (NamedEntity for the moment, but could be something else)
- Pass a directory or file to PARAM_SOURCE_LOCATION without having to worry about things like:
- Adding *.ann at the end of the directory path (the Reader would add it automaticaly)
- Making sure to pass the .ann file as opposed to the .txt file (the Reader would automatically converts it to .ann path)
- Making sure that the single file, or all the the .txt files in the directory have a corresponding .ann file (the Reader would automatically creates empty .ann files for orphan .txt files)
If this seems appropriate, I will create a feature request followed by a Pull REquest.