Hello Joern, What changes needed to update to OpenNLP 1.7.1? Show I change only pom.xml or something else? I would like to try it out. I maintain some kind of cTaks fork, exactly for purpose of keeping up with dependency updates, until they land in the Ctakes itself.
2017-01-26 4:00 GMT+06:00 Joern Kottmann <[email protected]>: > Hello, > > yes I did a lot of testing to make sure that 1.7.0 and 1.7.1 are as > good as any other OpenNLP release. > > The OpenNLP eval tests use all the data we currently support to ensure > it all works. If you have some specific corpora you need to be sure > OpenNLP performs well on we can try to add them to the evaluation > tests. > > Looks like to update we need to change the version and remove the > maxent dependencies. The maxent part is not integrated into opennlp- > tools. > > The existing models dating back to 1.5.0 are supported and should work > just as good. In some rare cases we fixed obvious bugs which can affect > the performance but this should be really minor. > > In case you have the data I would like to encourage you to retrain with > 1.7.1, and otherwise you are also fine with the 1.5.x models. > > Also I can dedicate some time to ensure the corpora you are using are > supported by the OpenNLP formats package. > > Your POS Tagger readme is mentioning GENIA, do you still use that? > > The POS Tagger these days can also be trained directly on the Penn Tree > Bank, but you could also use OntoNotes. > > Should I sent you a patch to update your poms? > > I also noticed you are not using the opennlp-uima integration, is that > not working for cTAKES? We could try to find a solution which works for > you without duplicating our effort. > > Jörn > > > On Wed, 2017-01-25 at 18:43 +0000, Finan, Sean wrote: > > Hi Jorn, > > > > Great idea! Have you done any testing with the latest release? I > > think that ctakes has 3 dependencies on opennlp libraries. We should > > try to get our integration with that update (and others) solidified > > for the upcoming release. The boston children's hospital nlp team > > just gained a new member who will be devoting a significant amount of > > time to a 3.2.3 (or 3.3.0) release of ctakes. He is James Masanz, > > one of the original developers of ctakes, and we are extremely happy > > to have him onboard. > > > > Thank you for the notification, > > Sean > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Joern Kottmann [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 4:52 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Update to OpenNLP 1.7.1 > > > > Hello all, > > > > the OpenNLP team just released a new version and I would like to > > propose to update cTAKES to it. > > > > The release should be fully backward compatible. If you don't mind I > > am happy to send you a patch to make it easier to migrate. > > > > The OpenNLP project also ships a UIMA integration which as far as I > > can tell could be used by cTAKES directly. > > > > BR, > > Jörn >
