On Jan 21, 2013, at 1:42 PM, "Miller, Timothy" <[email protected]> wrote: > I can't answer conclusively, but I believe those are all models trained using > the clearTK framework. There may be a way of packaging them as separate > files rather than jars but I'm not sure if that would have any benefit since: > 1) You almost always will not be/should not be modifying models trained using > machine learning methods, > 2) It may clutter up the models directory -- if you have a 10 class > classifier it will build 10 one-vs-all classifiers and package them together > (along with some metadata) and I think it is valuable to encapsulate this > even for many of the core ctakes developers. > > As far as whether these models change or evolve, they will certainly change > as features or more data are added, but I wouldn't really say evolve, at > least not in the sense that svn can take advantage of. A small change in the > training input will change these models almost completely so it wouldn't > really be valuable to, e.g., view diffs between component model files even if > they are ascii. > > Dima or Steve Bethard may be able to answer better but I'm not sure if they > are checking email today.
I couldn't have said it any better. Tim was right on there. Steve
