package edu.stanford.nlp.pipeline;
/**
* Data source from which annotations comes from
*
* @author Angel Chang
*/
public interface AnnotationSource {
/**
* Returns a iterable of annotations given input string (i.e. filename, lucene query, etc)
* @param selector - selector of what annotations to return
* @param limit - limit on the number of annotations to return (0 or less for unlimited)
* @return iterable of annotations
*/
public Iterable<Annotation> getAnnotations(String selector, int limit);
/**
* Returns a iterable of annotations given input string (i.e. filename, lucene query, etc)
* @param selector - selector of what annotations to return
* @return iterable of annotations
*/
public Iterable<Annotation> getAnnotations(String selector);
}