Andy, You might want to talk with the folks at iDASH. They have an image with a number of NLP tools installed, but it doesn't have the latest version of cTAKES.
http://idash.ucsd.edu/nlp/natural-language-processing-nlp-ecosystem Perhaps they would be open to your help with upgrading to a later version of cTAKES. -- James -----Original Message----- From: dev-return-2151-Masanz.James=mayo....@ctakes.apache.org [mailto:dev-return-2151-Masanz.James=mayo....@ctakes.apache.org] On Behalf Of andy mcmurry Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 6:34 PM To: dev@ctakes.apache.org Subject: Re: cTAKES user interface Ricard: Groovy idea. Virtual Machine could benefit from that as well. *## IMHO: These are parallel tasks that I think are higher priority than new features. *It isn't as glamorous as playing Jeopardy, but deploy issues are keeping users out -- if I were to guess A LOT of the potential user base looks at ctakes and says "wow that amazing! " then they look at how complex it will be to do their simple "Hello Ctakes" example and the 15 minutes of attention -- we are one walk to the soda machine away from being either embraced or forgotten. It really is that basic -- if it takes to long to get started, chances are new users -- wont. The documentation is nicely done and this is absolutely no criticism of that. In fact, I apologize for being so out of touch (was thesis writing ). It just feels like 1992 all over again and your compiling linux just to find out you didn't tweak your VGA card settings right, and now your stuck. But you still think linux rocks. 2013 is here and linux now runs out of the box. The OS itself has changed less in features and more in ease of use. I know its not Jeopardy but we gotta do it. *## I'm going to make a VM (Ubuntu 13.10) for myself and let everyone kick it around. **I strongly encourage the Groovy deploy targets as Richard suggested. * This really isn't an either | OR. We need to be able to have easier turn around on cTakes so we can get back to Jeopardy. *## Who agrees, and are there any counter proposals? * AndyMC On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Richard Eckart de Castilho <r...@apache.org>wrote: > Maven allows to do marvelous things on the CLI, provided you throw in an > additional component: Groovy. > > We did some amazing self-contained Groovy scripts with uimaFIT and DKPro > Core which you might find interesting > > http://code.google.com/p/dkpro-core-asl/wiki/DKProGroovyCookbook > > -- Richard > > On 29.10.2013, at 23:09, "Miller, Timothy" < > timothy.mil...@childrens.harvard.edu> wrote: > > > I think this is also an area where Maven integration was a small step > backwards (I greatly appreciate the steps forward it allowed). I used to > run stuff from the command line and in scripts more often but it's slightly > less straightforward setting up the classpath with maven -- before you > could put a simple java -cp lib/*.jar <class name> in a script, now I'm not > sure how to go about it using maven. I'm sure there's a way, but I am > afraid of falling down the maven rabbit hole. > > Tim > > > > > > On Oct 29, 2013, at 5:53 PM, Chen, Pei wrote: > > > >> +1 > >> Pan, the short answer is yes- it can be done in CLI. > >> The problem is that most of us who are already familiar with the nitty > gritty are probably doing this with some sort of custom scripts or solution. > >> Cc' the dev group to get a fresh perspective; not sure what the easiest > would be-- run the CPE via command line with default input/output > directories or running a Driver Main Class as part of examples. > >> > >> --Pei > >
