Since I started working with cTakes some time ago, I have found it difficult to compare the output between subsequent runs on the same files because annotations are often assigned different IDs, are listed in different order, etc.
One area that seems to be a cause for at least some of these differences is the common use of HashMap where enumerating the contents is not guaranteed to return items in the same order they were added. I would like to work towards addressing this issue by changing those areas of the code where it matters to use a LinkedHashMap instead. Is this something the community would be interested in and find helpful? Thanks, Bruce Tietjen Perfect Search Corp.
