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Re: Testing UIMA

Marshall Schor — 2012-05-24T02:30:47

It's not really clear what you mean when you say "testing UIMA" - because UIMA 
is basically an empty framework - all the "smarts" reside in the Annotators, 
which are typically some combination of pre-done parts (you can find some of 
these on the UIMA site, or search the internet for them), and some annotators 
you develop yourself, for your particular purpose.

-Marshall

On 5/16/2012 10:20 AM, Burt Buchman wrote:

Re: Recognize patterns from samples

Marshall Schor — 2012-05-24T02:27:52

Hi,

Basic UIMA is an empty framework, designed to let people independently develop 
"annotators" and let others pull them together into processing pipelines.

So, the basic UIMA framework, by itself, won't help, without finding some 
Annotators to have it run.

You can search the internet for UIMA Annotators - there are several repositories 
of these (some of them are cataloged on the Apache UIMA website, under external 
links).  And you can write your own, to particular things you need.

The Apache UIMA project also comes with a few annotators of its own (click on 
"annotators", or use this direct link: 
http://uima.apache.org/sandbox.html#uima-addons-annotators ), and other Apache 
projects (such as OpenNLP) make their functionality available as UIMA annotators.

HTH   -Marshall

On 5/18/2012 3:06 AM, Mansour wrote:

Re: Maven ERROR

Marshall Schor — 2012-05-24T02:23:12

The eclipse-update-site is not the normal UIMA download site.  It is only for 
use with Eclipse to install the UIMA plugins into Eclipse.

The downloads are described on the uima download page - go to 
http://uima.apache.org and on the left hand side menu click on downloads, and 
read that page to figure out what you may want to download.

You might also want to click on the "documentation" page, and read the "getting 
started" guides.

Here's a link: http://uima.apache.org/documentation.html#getting_started

-Marshall

On 5/23/2012 9:01 PM, tgh wrote:

Maven ERROR

tgh — 2012-05-24T01:01:30

Hi

         I read UIMA Overview & SDK Setup ,and try to download UIMA with
maven, 

but ULR is ERROR, it says that
http://www.apache.org/dist/uima/eclipse-update-site/ , something is lost and
could not found, how to deal with it,

         

         could anyone help me?

 

------------

Tian

Recognize patterns from samples

Mansour — 2012-05-18T07:06:35

Hello all,
I am new to this framework, and to this topic in general.
My requirement is to build a component that can take unstructured html
documents, and extract data. Something like this can be built with a regular
html parser.
However due the number of different html document types, building something
like this by hand is a time consuming, especially if there is a way to generate
a parser automatically from training data and apply incremental learning as new
samples are proven valid. 
Many of the documents I am looking to structure and extract data from, contains
financial data (currency, numbers, dates and times .. etc).

So my first question is, Can UIMA help ? I did some reading about opennlp, and
got lost, which one is closer to what I need if any.

Thank you a lot, for your time.

Testing UIMA

Burt Buchman — 2012-05-16T14:20:02

Hi all:

We are interested in testing UIMA and wondering if there is any site
available for that? Or would we have to install it to then test it out?
Would appreciate any insight. Thanks!

 

Burt Buchman

Solution Architect - Editorial

EBSCO Publishing

Phone: 978-356-6500, ext 2346

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Re: AW: uimaFIT 1.3.1 - AnalysisEngineFactory.setConfigurationParameters deprecated

Richard Eckart de Castilho — 2012-05-16T06:35:57

Hello Armin,


Thanks for pointing that out. Looks like there is a typo in the JavaDoc comment "< at >Deprecated" vs "< at >deprecated". Shall be fixed.

Best,

AW: uimaFIT 1.3.1 - AnalysisEngineFactory.setConfigurationParameters deprecated

2012-05-16T05:45:52

Hello Richard,

Thank you. I missed it in the attached JavaDoc because I've only read http://uimafit.googlecode.com/svn/tags/uimafit-parent-1.3.1/apidocs/index.html. It's not in there.

Regards,

Armin

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Betreff: Re: uimaFIT 1.3.1 - AnalysisEngineFactory.setConfigurationParameters deprecated

Hello Armin,


The method has been moved to ResourceCreationSpecifierFactory since it is not specific to analysis engines. I can see a corresponding JavaDoc comment in the sources. If you use Maven, it should automatically deliver you the sources/JavaDoc and provide such information. If you do not use Maven, you can download the JavaDoc JAR from Maven Central and attach it manually to the uimaFIT JAR in your Eclipse to get access to the JavaDoc.

Cheers,

Re: uimaFIT 1.3.1 - AnalysisEngineFactory.setConfigurationParameters deprecated

Richard Eckart de Castilho — 2012-05-15T19:06:10

Hello Armin,


The method has been moved to ResourceCreationSpecifierFactory since it is not specific to analysis engines. I can see a corresponding JavaDoc comment in the sources. If you use Maven, it should automatically deliver you the sources/JavaDoc and provide such information. If you do not use Maven, you can download the JavaDoc JAR from Maven Central and attach it manually to the uimaFIT JAR in your Eclipse to get access to the JavaDoc.

Cheers,

UIMA Addons components

Arash Hossein Abady — 2012-05-14T05:07:25

Hi,

How i can add-on components (annotators and consumes) in UIMA?

list of components:
http://uima.apache.org/sandbox.html#UIMA%20Addons%20components

I run the UIMA in eclipse.

Thanks

uimaFIT 1.3.1 - AnalysisEngineFactory.setConfigurationParameters deprecated

2012-05-15T11:04:10

Hi,

Since version 1.3.1 of uimaFIT
org.uimafit.factory.AnalysisEngineFactory.setConfigurationParameters is
marked as deprecated. What should I use instead?

Regards,

Armin

Re: Maven UIMA and import by name

Erik Fäßler — 2012-05-11T18:21:32

Hey you all,

thanks a lot for your answers. I had tried to add the desc/ directory as a maven resource. However, the UIMA component editor still wouldn't show me my descriptors to choose from. I have to remove the "exclude: **" entry in the build path first. Then, the whole directory is copied to the target/classes directory. I didn't like this approach too much because now I have each descriptor doubled. But I guess I can exclude the duplicates from any builds by configuring the appropriate build / package plugin.
I think I will also change it from being a resource to being a source folder. This way I don't get even a third copy of all descriptors in my target/resources directory.

Thanks again and a nice weekend to you!

Best,

Erik

Am 11.05.2012 um 18:05 schrieb Thomas Ginter:

Re: Maven UIMA and import by name

Thomas Ginter — 2012-05-11T16:05:49

We use maven for our UIMA-AS projects.  Here is the build section from our standard POM entries:

<build>
    <resources>
      <resource>
        <directory>src/main/desc/</directory>
      </resource>
      <resource>
        <directory>src/main/resources/</directory>
      </resource>
    </resources>
    <pluginManagement>
        <plugins>
         <plugin>
          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
          <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
          <configuration>
            <source>1.6</source>
            <target>1.6</target>
          </configuration>
        </plugin>
      </plugins>
    </pluginManagement>
   </build>

This adds the desc and resources directories as source directories that allow you to resolve the import of descriptors by name.

Thanks,

Thomas Ginter
801-448-7676
thomas.ginter-wbocuHtxKic< at >public.gmane.org




On May 11, 2012, at 9:56 AM, Erik Fäßler wrote:

Re: Maven UIMA and import by name

Tommaso Teofili — 2012-05-11T16:04:44

Hi Erik,
I mostly edit XMLs by hand (also because I use IntelliJ IDEA) but I think
you may tell Maven that desc is a resource folder:


<build>
    ...
    <resources>
      <resource>
        <directory>src/main/resources</directory>

        <directory>desc</directory>

</resource> ... </build>


HTH,
Tommaso


2012/5/11 Erik Fäßler <erik.faessler-S+RBGtoBSY4b1SvskN2V4Q< at >public.gmane.org>

Re: Maven UIMA and import by name

Richard Eckart de Castilho — 2012-05-11T16:04:18

Hi Erik.

you can configure Maven with an extra "resources" folder.

http://maven.apache.org/pom.html#Resources

We usually keep our descriptors under "src/main/resources" to have them on the classpath. But we do not care about being PEAR compatible. So adding "desc" as a resources folder in your POM is probably the right thing for you.

Maven UIMA and import by name

Erik Fäßler — 2012-05-11T15:56:09

Hello all,

I have a question on how you deal with a specific use case and would like to know if you have some suggestions for me.

I use Maven for all my Java projects and so I do for my UIMA related projects. Now I have a quite large pipeline with lots of descriptors. They reside in (or subdirectories of) the 'desc' directory of the 'UIMA nature' structure.
Currently I am about to pack these single-AE descriptors into aggregates. For importing all single-AEs into the AAE descriptor, I would like to use "import by name". However, the 'desc' directory is not a library for eclipse and thus, the AAE descriptor editor doesn't list the descriptors residing in this directory - I can't add them (and when I edit the XML, I get error messages about descriptors not found).

I would like to just add the 'desc' directory to the build path as an "class folder" (not a source folder, this won't work), i.e. as a library. When I do this manually, Maven would overwrite it the next time it updates my project configuration.

Have you any ideas here? Do you use 'import by name' for your PEARS? Do you just live with the error messages and edit the XML directly?

Just would like to know how you do it - and if anyone knows a way to tell maven that 'desc' should be a library, I'd be glad :-)

Best regards,

Erik

Re: programmatically setting parameters on CpeCasProcessor objects

Andrew Fast — 2012-05-10T19:59:51

I've had the same problem.  Here is what has worked for me:

1) Create a blank ConfigurationParameterSettings object using the 
CPE factory:

CasProcessorConfigurationParameterSettings settings =             
   CpeDescriptorFactory.produceCasProcessorConfigurationParameterSettings();

2) Set your settings, e.g.,:

settings.setParameterValue("PARAM", value);

3) Then, set the settings of your processor

processor.setConfigurationParameterSettings(settings)

4) Finally, add the processor to your CPE

cpe.addCasProcessor(processor);

The CPE xml only ever contains a path to each component descriptor and 
doesn't actually know about the settings until runtime.

hth,

Andy

How to load XMI CAS from a DB inside a Reader AE?

Jörn Kottmann — 2012-05-08T17:03:31

Hi all,

I have a database which contains XMIs and would like to process
these with UIMA-AS.

My pipeline looks like this:
Database Reader AE
Result Writer AE

I made an AAE composed out of the two AEs, the first gets a CAS with an
ID encoded into its sofa. It then fetches the XMI from the DB, and calls
XmiCasDeserializer.deserialize to load it into the CAS.
After that it inserts an ID FeatureStructure into the CAS (via createFS 
and addFsToIndexes).

The second AE should just access the content of the CAS, but the ID FS added
by the first AE is missing. Why is it missing? (input/output 
capabilities are not specified)
The content which is in the XMI can be accessed.

Is it safe to use XmiCasDeserializer.deserialize? Or should it be done
in some other way?

Jörn

Re: obtaining xmi:id from tag.

Marshall Schor — 2012-05-07T13:51:05


On 5/3/2012 2:49 PM, James Moliere wrote:

I don't think this is usually done.  If some kind of unique id (for each feature 
structure) is required by the application, it of course could be done, but I 
think that requirement is not the usual case for users of UIMA.

In UIMA, it is much more common to have a feature structure hold a reference 
directly to another feature structure, rather than through a unique ID field.

-Marshall

Submission Deadline Extension

VHPC 12 — 2012-05-06T17:39:44

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Re: obtaining xmi:id from tag.

James Moliere — 2012-05-03T18:49:43


I'm a bit new to UIMA. Do developers typically generate their own unique 
IDs andsimply add the ID attribute to each element in the file?