[rules-users] Hello and my first question

[Wolfgang Laun]

I take "optional" to mean "don't care whether it is there or not" - so
why don't you simply omit this condition?

-W

On 14/01/2013, Bojan Janisch <bojan.janisch at scai.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> this is my first post and also my first question to you.
> I've searched the net for quite some hours now, but don't get any
> information regarding optionally conditions.
>
> I'm using drools to annotate some textobjects and I'm stucking with the
> following rule:
>
> When there are two named entities, one body side and one anatomy in a text
> (they're defined earlier by a textannotating system, so I'm working on
> annotated objects) and there is a optionally anatomic side (it contains
> generally something like "lateral" oder "medial" and so on), then generate
> me a new annotation.
>
> So up to now I'm on this state:
>
> Rule "Anatomic Side"
>
> when
>
>  $NE1 : NE(Type.contains("body"))
>  $NE2 : NE(Type.contains("anatomy"))
>
>  //So here starts the problem
>  [$NE3 : NE(Type.contains("anatomic"))]
>
> then
>  ...
>
> How can I set a condition as optionally or is there no such way?
>
> Thanks everyone to who reads this.
> Janisch
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