I'm also interested in showing BRAT annotations and might be able to spare a 
few cycles towards that goal. 

BioNLP has a really nice display of BRAT for the Cancer shared task 
http://2013.bionlp-st.org/tasks/cancer-genetics



On Feb 11, 2014, at 6:06 AM, Jörn Kottmann <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 02/07/2014 07:49 PM, William Karl Thompson wrote:
>> OpenNLP has some code that takes brat annotation files and creates 
>> "BratAnnotation" object instances. I've taken the code and modified it 
>> (simplified in some ways) to generate cTAKES annotations, using a 
>> "BratAnnotator" analysis engine that reads in brat annotation files. I would 
>> be happy to share that code with anyone who wants to look at it and make it 
>> better!
> 
> We worked quite a bit with brat for training the OpenNLP Name Finder. As part 
> of this project we the format support was developed.
> In my opinion it works best if you just support the format your training data 
> is in and then train all the models on it directly, rather than
> using converters to transform it into a different format for training.
> 
> It would probably be very useful for some to have a nice UIMA integration to 
> read in a brat corpus for training and validation.
> 
> In case you found any bugs, or have some suggestion please consider to 
> contribute your code changes back to OpenNLP.
> 
> Jörn

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