releasing 1.0.17

[keighrim]

Overview

This release adds caching mechanism for annotation alignments (via Alignment annotation, the alignment via targets property is not yet supported).

Additions

• Annotation class now has .aligned_to_by(alignment: Annotation) and .get_all_aligned() method to quickly retrieve cached alignment counterparts (improved alignment "caching" #285). The caching occurs
  1. when MMIF JSON is deserialized
  2. when view.add_annotation or view.new_annotation is called

Changes

• mmif.utils.text_document_helper.slice_text received a major speed boost from the alignment caching.