See CTAKES-417 for my patch to update the dependency to 1.7.1
and CTAKES-98 to just use opennlp-uima instead of maintain a custom
UIMA integration.

Jörn

On Thu, 2017-01-26 at 15:29 +0000, Finan, Sean wrote:
> Tonic!
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joern Kottmann [mailto:kottm...@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2017 5:15 AM
> To: dev@ctakes.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Update to OpenNLP 1.7.1
> 
> Yes, the version should be updated to 1.7.1 and the opennlp maxent
> dependency should be removed.
> I prepared a patch yesterday and will open a jira tonight and attach
> it there.
> 
> Let me attach the patch, then I will ask for a review and if you
> don't mind I would then commit it myself.
> 
> Jörn
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 5:42 AM, Andrey Kurdumov <kant2002@googlemail
> .com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hello Joern,
> > 
> > What changes needed to update to OpenNLP 1.7.1? Show I change only 
> > pom.xml or something else?
> > I would like to try it out. I maintain some kind of cTaks fork, 
> > exactly for purpose of keeping up with dependency updates, until
> > they 
> > land in the Ctakes itself.
> > 
> > 2017-01-26 4:00 GMT+06:00 Joern Kottmann <kottm...@gmail.com>:
> > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > yes I did a lot of testing to make sure that 1.7.0 and 1.7.1 are
> > > as 
> > > good as any other OpenNLP release.
> > > 
> > > The OpenNLP eval tests use all the data we currently support to 
> > > ensure it all works. If you have some specific corpora you need
> > > to 
> > > be sure OpenNLP performs well on we can try to add them to the 
> > > evaluation tests.
> > > 
> > > Looks like to update we need to change the version and remove
> > > the 
> > > maxent dependencies. The maxent part is not integrated into
> > > opennlp- 
> > > tools.
> > > 
> > > The existing models dating back to 1.5.0 are supported and
> > > should 
> > > work just as good. In some rare cases we fixed obvious bugs
> > > which 
> > > can affect the performance but this should be really minor.
> > > 
> > > In case you have the data I would like to encourage you to
> > > retrain 
> > > with 1.7.1, and otherwise you are also fine with the 1.5.x
> > > models.
> > > 
> > > Also I can dedicate some time to ensure the corpora you are
> > > using 
> > > are supported by the OpenNLP formats package.
> > > 
> > > Your POS Tagger readme is mentioning GENIA, do you still use
> > > that?
> > > 
> > > The POS Tagger these days can also be trained directly on the
> > > Penn 
> > > Tree Bank, but you could also use OntoNotes.
> > > 
> > > Should I sent you a patch to update your poms?
> > > 
> > > I also noticed you are not using the opennlp-uima integration,
> > > is 
> > > that not working for cTAKES? We could try to find a solution
> > > which 
> > > works for you without duplicating our effort.
> > > 
> > > Jörn
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Wed, 2017-01-25 at 18:43 +0000, Finan, Sean wrote:
> > > > Hi Jorn,
> > > > 
> > > > Great idea!  Have you done any testing with the latest
> > > > release?  I 
> > > > think that ctakes has 3 dependencies on opennlp libraries.  We 
> > > > should try to get our integration with that update (and
> > > > others) 
> > > > solidified for the upcoming release.  The boston children's 
> > > > hospital nlp team just gained a new member who will be devoting
> > > > a 
> > > > significant amount of time to a 3.2.3 (or 3.3.0) release of 
> > > > ctakes.  He is James Masanz, one of the original developers of 
> > > > ctakes, and we are extremely happy to have him onboard.
> > > > 
> > > > Thank you for the notification,
> > > > Sean
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Joern Kottmann [mailto:kottm...@gmail.com]
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 4:52 AM
> > > > To: dev@ctakes.apache.org
> > > > Subject: Update to OpenNLP 1.7.1
> > > > 
> > > > Hello all,
> > > > 
> > > > the OpenNLP team just released a new version and I would like
> > > > to 
> > > > propose to update cTAKES to it.
> > > > 
> > > > The release should be fully backward compatible. If you don't
> > > > mind 
> > > > I am happy to send you a patch to make it easier to migrate.
> > > > 
> > > > The OpenNLP project also ships a UIMA integration which as far
> > > > as 
> > > > I can tell could be used by cTAKES directly.
> > > > 
> > > > BR,
> > > > Jörn

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