Re: Represent your project at ApacheCon

2014-01-29 Thread andy mcmurry
I'm hoping to attend. If I were to present, it would be using NLP to find evidence of DNA mutations causing disease. Interesting topic (for me at least) but I'm not sure if ApacheCON would be into it. PS: the radio silence is because I've been working on both the VM and a wrapper for REST that run

Re: Represent your project at ApacheCon

2014-01-29 Thread Richard Eckart de Castilho
Hi Andy, you might find this interesting: https://github.com/jimpil/clojuima -- Richard On 29.01.2014, at 12:24, andy mcmurry wrote: > I'm hoping to attend. > If I were to present, it would be using NLP to find evidence of DNA > mutations causing disease. Interesting topic (for me at least) b

Re: Clojure, having its origins in LISP, is a better fit for serious NLP work

2014-01-29 Thread Steven Bethard
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 5:24 AM, andy mcmurry wrote: > Clojure, having its origins in LISP, is a better fit for serious NLP work > than Groovy Sorry, I have to call this one out. I don't think having origins in LISP makes anything a better fit for serious NLP work. Not that I'm against Clojure o

Re: Clojure, having its origins in LISP, is a better fit for serious NLP work

2014-01-29 Thread Karthik Sarma
+1 ... Not that I am a big groovy fan either ;) Perhaps an argument could be made for LISP based on the breadth of existing work in LISP, though. On Wednesday, January 29, 2014, Steven Bethard wrote: > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 5:24 AM, andy mcmurry > > > wrote: > > Clojure, having its origins in

Re: sentence detector newline behavior

2014-01-29 Thread Jörn Kottmann
On 01/27/2014 08:44 PM, Tim Miller wrote: That is a good point, and something I was wondering about. Having now looked at both the ctakes and opennlp code for the sentence splitter it seems like there is a lot of overlap. I would've thought it was just a matter of converting annotations into

RE: sentence detector newline behavior

2014-01-29 Thread Chen, Pei
+1 There's an example of the configs here :) https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CTAKES-98 I think we should be able to use OpenNLP's Sentence Annotator directly if we no longer need the custom newline rule(s) [Or if we find that a fixed rule is still required, perhaps OpenNLP can support it

Re: sentence detector newline behavior

2014-01-29 Thread Jörn Kottmann
On 01/27/2014 03:52 PM, Tim Miller wrote: OK, with the most recent version I am able to replicate the performance I was getting before. Thanks a lot Jörn! Assuming this is in the next incremental release of opennlp, how quickly can we get a re-trained model into cTAKES? I am currently worki