Thanks to all for your interest! The code examples are on their way, I'm trying to make them as diverse as possible. I'll let you know as soon as they're ready.
Thanks for telling me about tika, Oliver, it's very interesting! An algorithm that tries to extract the meaning of a variety of documents could typically be a combination of tika and the Laboratory Toolkit. However, the Laboratory Toolkit is less specialized (in fact, it's not specialized at all) and less concrete. It is similar in its genericity and in the nature of its benefits to, for example, the Executor API in java.concurrent. As the Executor API lets you think and design concurrent algorithms in terms of tasks and executors, the Laboratory Toolkit lets you think and design some other (I haven't found a satisfying description yet) algorithms in terms of analyses and laboratories. Bests, Valentin WAESELYNCK Étudiant en 3° année à l'École Polytechnique valentin.waesely...@polytechnique.edu +33 6 80 84 99 54 Le Vendredi 6 décembre 2013 21h30, Oliver Heger <oliver.he...@oliver-heger.de> a écrit : Am 05.12.2013 13:44, schrieb Valentin Waeselynck: > Hello, and pleased to meet you, > > Thank you for your answer. > > I just asked for confirmation, and I do have full intellectual property on > this software. > > About the use cases : no problem, I'll include some code samples. As a > foreword, let's say it provides a convenient API for creating all sorts of > custom "information extraction" algorithms. If the library is about information extraction, you may also want to have a look at the Apache Tika project [1]. Oliver [1] http://tika.apache.org/ > > As for the group of persons willing to maintain this : well, for the moment, > there is me. As this is a quite small toolkit, I think it's sufficient, at > least for a start. > > I'll start working towards the other requirements (maven + test coverage) > right away and let you know as soon as it's ready. > > > > Should I keep answering to the whole ML about this, or only to you? > > Best regards, > > > Valentin WAESELYNCK > Étudiant en 3° année à l'École Polytechnique > valentin.waesely...@polytechnique.edu > +33 6 80 84 99 54 > > > > > Le Jeudi 5 décembre 2013 8h53, Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org> a écrit : > > Bonjour Valentin, > > welcome to the ML. Good to hear that you've decided to join the open source > movement. > > First of all, it would really help, if you could elaborate some use cases > for your library. You're talking about building algorithms. What kind of > algorithms can be build with Laboratory Toolkit? Can you give some code > examples (just create some gists at github that show the the use of > Laboratory Toolkit)? > > There is an important requirement for any code to be incorporated into the > Apache code base: > - the interlectual property (IP) of the code has to be owned completely by > the contributor. You said, that you've build the Laboratory Toolkit for a > research project. Are you sure that you own the code? Or is it the result > of your work and thus is owned by your employer? > > At commons we have some additinal requirements: > - There should be a group of people who is willing to maintain the code > - Commons components should in general not depend on any other libraries > - Commons uses maven as the main build tool, so there should be a maven > build available > - The code should have a good test coverage > > You have to figure the IP issue out on your own first. > After that, if the community decides to accept this contribution, we can > work on the commons requirements. > > Best regards and thank you, > Benedikt > > > > 2013/12/4 Valentin Waeselynck <valentinwaesely...@yahoo.fr> > >> Hello to all, >> >> As part of a small research project (which combined techniques of >> text-mining, machine-learning and natural language generation, not that >> it's really relevant) I have come to design a small JavaSE library, which >> I'm for the moment calling the Laboratory Toolkit, for developing our >> algorithms in a comfortable and flexible manner. >> >> I have found it to be quite generic and reusable, not tied to any >> application domain, while still being rather accessible, and small enough >> to comprehend it easily. Therefore, I would like to propose it as a new >> Apache Commons component. I would be very grateful if one of you could >> tell me what steps I should follow for that purpose. >> >> I have uploaded it on Github : >> https://github.com/vvvvalvalval/Laboratory-Toolkit.git. There you may >> find the sources, the javadoc, and a small guide I have started to write >> for it (also attached to this mail). >> >> Of course, I am very open to feedback and criticism on your behalf. The >> last thing I want is to publish an immature or useless component; nor do I >> take a positive answer from you for granted. >> >> If I have failed to follow the proper procedure to propose a new candidate >> component, it is not on purpose, and I apologize in advance. >> >> Whatever your reply, and since I have the chance, I would also like to >> congratulate you for all your work. The Apache Commons components have >> really been lifesavers to me, on many occasions. >> >> With best wishes, >> >> Valentin WAESELYNCK >> Étudiant en 3° année à l'École Polytechnique >> valentin.waesely...@polytechnique.edu >> +33 6 80 84 99 54 >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
