How to save spelling variant annotations in STAM?

[kaldan007]

Annotated data:

Let's go to party(1)<{E1}part{E2}parties>. We will have lots of fun.

Over here {E1} and {E2} refers to edition 1 and 2. the part and parties and spelling variant found in different editions. Party is the latest edition spelling.
I have parser which parse the annotation in a dictionary where it saves:

{
   'span':[11,15],
   'spelling_varaint': {
              'E1':'part',
              'E2':'parties',
              'LE':'party'
         }
}

I able to save the span in target, but i am not able to save spelling variant in annotationdata. Kindly help me.

[proycon]

STAM is very open to however you want to model your data, so there is no single correct answer to this.

I'm not sure if I'm interpreting your use-case correctly, but you could make an annotation data set named spelling_variants with keys variant_text and edition (or variant_source?), and then do three annotations with a Text Selector on the same text span, each with annotation data like text = party, edition = LE etc... That way you can always independently add spelling variants from new editions as they become available and it's fairly easy to query variants given a specific edition.

If you're having doubts on how to create the data using Python and the stam library, see the part "Creating an annotation dataset (vocabulary)" in the tutorial notebook: https://nbviewer.org/github/annotation/stam-python/blob/master/tutorial.ipynb