Viewing results of analysis

By default, all span values from all output views that are generated from a launch configuration are displayed in the Annotation Explorer.

About this task

From the Annotation Explorer, you can do the following actions:

A span is a built-in type of Text Analytics. The span type represents a contiguous range of characters in a text field of the document. For example, the Span output Document.text[1665-1673]: '466-9196' represents Characters 1665-1673 of the text field of Document. This range of characters corresponds to the string 466-9196 in the original document.

Procedure

  1. Navigate to an input document from the Annotation Explorer.
  2. Double-click a row of output, or select a row in the output, and click Open Selected Span in Text Editor on the Annotation Explorer toolbar. The selected span is highlighted in the Result Editor, and the Result Tree View displays the selected span. By using the Result Tree View, you can see other spans that are extracted from the text.
  3. To display results in the Result Tree View from the Annotation Explorer, double-click a row of output. Each input document opens in a Result Tree View, where you can view all of the output views and their attributes in a tree format for a selected input document.
  4. Display results in the Result Table View from the Annotation Explorer. The Result Table View displays the tuples of an output view in a table.

    The data model of AQL is similar to the standard relational model used by SQL databases like DB2®. All data in AQL is stored in tuples, which are data records of one or more columns or fields. A collection of tuples forms a relation . Similar to SQL, a tuple is like a row and relation is like a table.

  5. Click the Select Output Views to Display in Result Table View menu on the Annotation Explorer toolbar, and select an output view. The Result Table View opens. You can also right-click a row of output and select Show Span in Result Table to open the Result Table View.
  6. Navigate to the view definition from the Annotation Explorer.
  7. Right-click a row in the Annotation Explorer view, and select Show view in AQL Editor. The corresponding View Definition opens in the AQL editor.