I just released ClearTK 1.4.0 and there are a couple of reasons we should probably consider updating the cTAKES dependency:
(1) ClearTK 1.4.0 can now load trained models from the classpath, so we could get rid of the workaround org.apache.ctakes.relationextractor.ae.RelationExtractorAnnotator.allowClassifierModelOnClasspath. (2) ClearTK 1.4.0 has wrappers for multi-class classification with LIBLINEAR which is orders of magnitude faster than LIBSVM. The main downside is that models will have to be re-trained. (It's not necessarily the case that all models would need to be retrained, depending on exactly which classes they were using, but it's probably safer to do so.) I believe this would mostly affect ctakes-temporal, ctakes-relation-extractor and ctakes-assertion. Thoughts? Steve P.S. I noticed that ctakes-assertion declares a dependency on cleartk-examples. The cleartk-examples module was never intended for release, and has not been released as part of ClearTK 1.4.0. Looking at the code, it seems like the dependency in cleartk-examples is not needed, but perhaps a ctakes-assertion person could weigh in on why this dependency was there?
