Hi Sergey, Is there any survey about which programming languages popular among NLP developers?
Kind Regards, Furkan KAMACI On 7 Jun 2022 Tue at 17:37 Kamov Sergey <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > One more important thing. We want to support Scala API only for next > library’s version. > Now seems better to narrow this technological focus too.Current > approach, java API and Scala implementation, provoke a lot of technical > compromises (collections conversion, performance issues etc) > But at the same time, support of java API also doesn’t give us > significant benefits, because Java is not so popular among NLP > engineers.Focus on Scala allows to have more elegant user API and > implementation, also we can promote this solution for members of not so > big but active Scala community. > If library is successful we always can add java API support again over > Scala layer. > > Regards, > > Sergey Kamov > > > On 04.06.2022 17:56, Kamov Sergey wrote: > > > > Hi > > I want to enumerate next NlpCraft release changes. > > > > Main goals of next release: > > - Simplifying of the system usage. > > - Narrowing of focus - NLP, deleting all unrelated, auxiliary > components. > > - Possibility of custom multi-language support. > > - Simplifying of code, technical debt minimization. > > > > 1. Removed > > - Client-server approach components, servers cluster support. > > - Any database usage. > > - CLI management console. > > - Docker related stuff. > > - Complex semantic components support. > > After these changes NlpCraft becomes simple library with java API. > > > > 2.Added and changed > > All components plugability support added, including such base as > > tokenizer etc, with EN default implementations of all of them. > > Note, that components testability was also significantly simplified, > > which is especially useful for user custom components. > > > > As results - all goals seem in general achieved. > > Code, including examples on different languages (EN, FR, RU) are > > accessible in `master` branch. > > Th best way to look at the code and review API, components work - > > start and debug 'light-switch' example, EN and FR versions. > > > > Remained tasks: some additional examples, user API clarifying, > > documentation. > > > > Please ask the questions if you have. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Sergey Kamov > >
