Hi Helen,
We use CAS views. Chapter six should help:
http://uima.apache.org/d/uimaj-2.4.0/tutorials_and_users_guides.pdf
We read the xml into one view and then have an annotator
scrape the plain text and put it in another.
You can work this so the XML to plaintext code is sofa aware and puts
the plain text where your existing code expects it to be without modification.
It's been a while since I've looked at this, but I left some notes:
http://code.google.com/p/uimafit/wiki/WorkingWithSofaViews
Also pay attention to the section called "Sofa Incompatibilities between UIMA
version 1 and version 2" in the user guide.
The uimafit users google group is another good resource.
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/uimafit-users
-Chris
On 2/19/13 4:43 PM, Helen Johnson -X (heljohns - Infobahn Softworld Inc at
Cisco) wrote:
So it turns out I cannot invoke
cas.reset()
from inside an annotator, nor can I set anew the text to be processed using
cas.setDocumentText()
once the doc-text has already been set in the SimpleServer Service.java class.
What are my options for altering the document text inside an annotator after
the SimpleServer Service.java has already set the document text?
-Helen
-----Original Message-----
From: Helen Johnson -X (heljohns - Infobahn Softworld Inc at Cisco)
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 7:05 AM
To: user@uima.apache.org
Subject: RE: SimpleServer, & instantiating CAS with custom typesystem?
Thanks for your reply, Jens.
I admit I had been avoiding setting the text of the CAS to be the entire XML
string I get back from the first REST service because it is a massive string
and I only want a couple nodes from that xml string to be processed throughout
the UIMA pipeline. But I see your point.
So then, in this new AE, I retrieve the entire XML string from the CAS, do the
zone-information processing from the specific nodes of the XML. I assume it is
straightforward to then reset the CAS text to be just this text I have found in
the original XML. Specifically, I would use CAS.reset() to empty the CAS of
the original (full XML) text, then jCAS.setDocumentText() with the new string
of just the relevant text, as well as load all the doc-zone annotations at this
point. Is this right?
Cheers,
Helen
-----Original Message-----
From: Jens Grivolla [mailto:j+...@grivolla.net]
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 3:20 AM
To: user@uima.apache.org
Subject: Re: SimpleServer, & instantiating CAS with custom typesystem?
Hi, SimpleServer itself is in a way your CR, creating a CAS with the document
text you sent. Why do you want to change SimpleServer, it seems that you only
want to add annotations to the CAS, not fundamentally change how the CAS is
created.
It seems to me that it would be far easier to just create an AE that adds those
annotations. Then you won't have any typesystem issues either, since the AE
would have the appropriate typesystem.
HTH,
Jens
On 02/18/2013 10:37 PM, Helen Johnson -X (heljohns - Infobahn Softworld Inc at
Cisco) wrote:
I'm stumped:
I have a UIMA pipeline that starts with a CollectionReader that
- reads XML input (response from a REST service),
- identifies a couple of relevant XML nodes
- makes document-level annotations from the relevant nodes (title,
document body, footnote section)
From there, the AnalysisEngine portion of the pipeline has many AEs that I've
wrapped into a single AggregateAnalysisEngine.
The CollectionReader and the AAE all work correctly in this pipeline.
Now I need to transfer this pipeline into a SimpleServer REST service
environment.
I've created a PEAR of the AAE portion of the pipeline, but I can't include the
CollectionReader in this PEAR.
First question:
It is my understanding the CR cannot be included in the PEAR for the
simpleServer, am I correct in this?
In order to get those document-zoning annotations of title, body & footnote, I
have added some methods to the Service.java class in the SimpleServer package that
do the XML parsing and then do the adding of these annotations to the JCAS before
the AAE is called. The error that is being thrown at this point is this:
"The server encountered an internal error (JCas type
"myPackage.DocClass.ArticleMainTitle" used in Java code, but was not declared in the XML
type descriptor.) that prevented it from fulfilling this request."
Second question:
Where is Service.java looking for the typesystem xml file to be? I have tried
all of the following, with the same error result:
- put the typesystem descriptor file, myTSD.xml, in SimpleServer/lib
- create a jar containing myTSD.xml, put it into SimpleServer/lib and
add that to the build path
- (after the two above attempts), in SimpleServer project properties, add
"lib" to the UIMA CDE Property Page
- in SimpleServer project properties, in UIMA Type System, point to
the myTSD.xml file in lib
- put myTSD.xml in SimpeServer/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib
- put the jar containing myTSD.xml in the
SimpleServer/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib
- put myTSD.xml in SimpleServer/WebContent/WEB-INF/resources
Final question:
When a CAS gets instantiated (or reset, as it does in Service.java), how can I
tell it to use a custom typesystem, and where will it look for that
typesystem.xml file within the SimpleServer project?
Thank you,
Helen Johnson
