Am 20.07.2011 um 17:18 schrieb Marshall Schor: > This suggests having a tool to make this "easy"; but also suggests that having > individual addon annotators packaged up as a "complete UIMA pipeline" may not > be > very interesting to anyone.
I think it would be nice if UIMA provided OSGi bundles as a standard alternative to the proprietary PEAR format - and every annotator or family of related annotators in one bundle, yes. I would not bundle up models with the annotators, but it would be nice if models could be resolvable/installable as separate bundles and/or maven artifacts. For example. in DKPro we wrapped the Stanford Parser and TreeTagger as an UIMA component without the models and made provisions for deploying the models to a Maven repository from where they can be added as dependencies. That's very convenient for our internal users. For licensing reasons, we currently do not publish these artifacts on a public Maven repository. And as mentioned before, as part of supporting OSGi, it would be nice if UIMA defined extensions points for publishing type-systems and components. Such a thing would eventually allow to install components as Eclipse plugins and have end users click pipelines together in a potential pipeline builder. I would not be interested very much in monster-bundles that contain a whole pipeline that is to be used as a service. -- Richard -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Eckart de Castilho Technical Lead Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab FB 20 Computer Science Department Technische Universität Darmstadt Hochschulstr. 10, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany phone [+49] (0)6151 16-7477, fax -5455, room S2/02/B117 eckar...@tk.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de Web Research at TU Darmstadt (WeRC) www.werc.tu-darmstadt.de -------------------------------------------------------------------
