PS ... Hi Pablo ... very generous of you to volunteer to help! Best, Eddie On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 1:37 PM Eddie Epstein <eaepst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 > >
