It would be useful to understand what roles uimacpp is still needed. Historically uimacpp code predated the existence of uimaj. See https://web.archive.org/web/20060312040720id_/http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/journal/sj/433/gotz.pdf
Uimacpp evolved along with uimaj to include new functionality such as multiple CAS views, xmi and binary CAS serialization, and UIMA-AS service interfaces. But uimacpp never supported CAS multipliers and development basically stopped around 2010. Improvements in CAS indexing and the newer compressed binary formats were never supported. Uimacpp support of UIMA-AS services was the most useful to us because the larger native C/C++ analytics would simply not run correctly thru the JNI; perhaps those JNI problems are fixed in newer Java releases. Python, tcl and perl support are all based on the swig interface work originally done by Jeff Sorensen. That python interface is C-like rather than python-like. Back in 2008 Edward Loper implemented a python native CAS and xmi serialization, but after a fair amount of work it still had problems deserializing large and complex XmiCas files. As far as I know, that code was never donated or made public. What functionality is needed now ... Just a standalone uimacpp driver? Just uimacpp thru the JNI which would enable use of uimacpp in any scenario where uimaj is used? Just the native uimacpp service wrapper compatible with UIMA-AS? Eddie On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 3:20 AM Richard Eckart de Castilho <r...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Pablo, > > > On 8. Dec 2022, at 00:15, Pablo Duboue <pablo.dub...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Python has attracted most of the newcomers mind share in NLP. UIMA C++ > can > > get us in the Python game and it is a great way to bring back stand-off > > annotations into NLP, something we have lost with newer toolkits. > > > > If possible, I'd like to try Eddie's task list and if I can get it to > work, > > step in as a maintainer for UIMA C++. If it takes Eddie 1-2 weeks of > work, > > I ask for a month time, then I'll come back and report. > > Cool! If you need anything, let me know! Happy to help :) > > As I said, I have not followed C++ development very closely, but I believe > that there are new tools these days like cmake and also easier ways of > integrating with Java like JavaCPP or maybe JNA. Over the years, the people > I had talked with about UIMA C++, the feedback way generally that it was > quite a rocky road. If we want to get into the Python game where people > are used to simple "pip install" stuff, the road probably needs a good > paving. > > Cheers, > > -- Richard
