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
