Hi Giri, The NPE is due to the fact that the component can't find the model file (It should probably give a more friendly error message though :).) In eclipse/mvn, ensure that you have the ctakes-dependency-parser-res and any other resource project included in your dependencies. Essentially, what it will need is everything in src/main/resources in the classpath.
--Pei From: giri vara prasad nambari [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 2:36 PM To: user Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: UIMAFit and cTakes Hi Pei, It was really tragic incident. My thoughts and prayers are with Boston. Regarding the UIMAFit and analysis engine issues, I did some trail/error and was able to successfully get Clinical-pipe-line --->Analysisi Engine--->Descriptors get loaded (after that Richard from UIMAFit chimed in suggested alternative code to get this run). But when I use this alternative code (shown below), I am getting ctakes NullPointerException. Any input on this issue? AnalysisEngineDescription aaeDesc = AnalysisEngineFactory.createAggregate(descPath) ; AnalysisEngine aee = AnalysisEngineFactory.createAggregate(aaeDesc); Getting following Exception: WARNING: The aggregate text analysis engine "AggregatePlaintextProcessor" has declared the parameter , but has not declared any overrides.This usage is deprecated. org.apache.uima.resource.ResourceInitializationException: Initialization of annotator class "org.apache.ctakes.dependency.parser.ae.ClearParserDependencyParserAE" failed. (Descriptor: file:/C:/workspace/DataAnalyisEngine/resources/ctakes-dependency-parser/desc/analysis_engine/ClearParserDependencyParserAE.xml) at org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.impl.PrimitiveAnalysisEngine_impl.initializeAnalysisComponent(PrimitiveAnalysisEngine_impl.java:252) at org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.impl.PrimitiveAnalysisEngine_impl.initialize(PrimitiveAnalysisEngine_impl.java:156) at org.apache.uima.impl.AnalysisEngineFactory_impl.produceResource(AnalysisEngineFactory_impl.java:94) at org.apache.uima.impl.CompositeResourceFactory_impl.produceResource(CompositeResourceFactory_impl.java:62) at org.apache.uima.UIMAFramework.produceResource(UIMAFramework.java:269) at org.apache.uima.UIMAFramework.produceAnalysisEngine(UIMAFramework.java:387) at org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.asb.impl.ASB_impl.setup(ASB_impl.java:254) at org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.impl.AggregateAnalysisEngine_impl.initASB(AggregateAnalysisEngine_impl.java:431) at org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.impl.AggregateAnalysisEngine_impl.initializeAggregateAnalysisEngine(AggregateAnalysisEngine_impl.java:375) at org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.impl.AggregateAnalysisEngine_impl.initialize(AggregateAnalysisEngine_impl.java:185) at org.apache.uima.impl.AnalysisEngineFactory_impl.produceResource(AnalysisEngineFactory_impl.java:94) at org.apache.uima.impl.CompositeResourceFactory_impl.produceResource(CompositeResourceFactory_impl.java:62) at org.apache.uima.UIMAFramework.produceResource(UIMAFramework.java:269) at org.apache.uima.UIMAFramework.produceResource(UIMAFramework.java:314) at org.apache.uima.UIMAFramework.produceAnalysisEngine(UIMAFramework.java:425) at org.uimafit.factory.AnalysisEngineFactory.createAggregate(AnalysisEngineFactory.java:424) at com.dae.test.JcasParserTest.main(JcasParserTest.java:28) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at clear.morph.MorphEnAnalyzer.<init>(MorphEnAnalyzer.java:111) at org.apache.ctakes.dependency.parser.ae.ClearParserDependencyParserAE.initialize(ClearParserDependencyParserAE.java:136) at org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.impl.PrimitiveAnalysisEngine_impl.initializeAnalysisComponent(PrimitiveAnalysisEngine_impl.java:250) ... 16 more Here is the thread which lists the discussion I had with Richard from UIMAFit. https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/uimafit-users/yI0NT2HynU0 I hope this will be last hurdle to overcome to get my code running as java client. I am allowed to use Maven (and this is eclipse project), but I don't have first hand experience with it yet, so prefer to hold until one level of flow is ready, which gives me comfort to work on improvements. Thank you, Giri On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Chen, Pei <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: [-user bcc, +dev as this is probably geared towards developers] Hi Giri, My apologies- a lot of us in the Boston area were out of the office yesterday for the holiday and also the tragic events that have transpired here. 1) Do I need to add ctakes resources some where in my eclipse project? If so, how? Attached screenshot of the jars I have in build path. Maven is excellent for handling and resolving dependencies. If this is an eclipse project, I would suggest creating a mvn project or cloning one of the existing pom.xml and add in any of the dependencies there. If you include any existing module as a dependency, it should automagically handle any resources/models without having to manually maintaining a lib directory. Please let us know if this works out for you or if you need more input in this space. 2) What should be descPath in following code ( I figured that this should be path for whatever the AE (like ctakes-clinical-pipeline) we would like to use, but I am not clear on how could I get this desc into my project. One way is to pass in any paths as configuration parameters so that it could be changed/reused if possible. I'll let some of the uimaFIT experts here chime in as to best use it for your use-case. But the API is capable of creating pipelines programmatically, as well as reading in a xml descriptor (Either Aggregate or Primitive). Some examples include that I could think of on the top of my head: [1] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ctakes/trunk/ctakes-dependency-parser/src/test/java/org/apache/ctakes/dependency/parser/ae/util/TestClearNLPAnalysisEngines.java [2] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ctakes/trunk/ctakes-temporal/src/main/java/org/apache/ctakes/temporal/eval/Evaluation_ImplBase.java I hope that helps. --Pei From: giri vara prasad nambari [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 10:45 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>; user Subject: Re: UIMAFit and cTakes Hi Team, Good morning! Any inputs on this issue? Thank you, Giri On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 5:33 PM, giri vara prasad nambari <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi Community, I am trying to write a simple java client program using UIMAFit and ctakes. I have added all jars come with UIMAFit and ctakes specific jars from ctakes lib to my eclipse project --->Java build path--->libraries. Sample code I have is (This is compiling fine, but runtime issue due to path is not valid for AnalysisEngineDescription): TypeSystemDescription typeSystemDescription = TypeSystemDescriptionFactory .createTypeSystemDescription(); List<AnalysisEngineDescription> engines = new ArrayList<AnalysisEngineDescription>(); List<String> componentNames = new ArrayList<String>(); AnalysisEngineDescription engine = AnalysisEngineFactory .createAnalysisEngineDescription("com.resources.AggregatePlaintextProcessor", "", ""); engines.add(engine); AnalysisEngine aggregateAE = AnalysisEngineFactory.createAggregate( engines, componentNames, typeSystemDescription, null, new SofaMapping[0]); One thing I am little confused here is, 1) Do I need to add ctakes resources some where in my eclipse project? If so, how? Attached screenshot of the jars I have in build path. 2) What should be descPath in following code ( I figured that this should be path for whatever the AE (like ctakes-clinical-pipeline) we would like to use, but I am not clear on how could I get this desc into my project. AnalysisEngineDescription engine = AnalysisEngineFactory .createAnalysisEngineDescription("descPath", "", ""); any inputs would be really appreciated. Thanks for your time and help. Thank you, Giri
