Thilo,
As Michael wrote, we will continue to support CFE in the future. It is
extensively used in our research and development process. In fact, CFE is the
only software that we use for extracting features for machine learning and
evaluation. We are also extending CFE to include an evaluation as a part of its
functionality. For that purpose we are enabling FESL with semantics required to
specify rules for annotation comparison. Just to clarify, you observation is
correct, as of now an evaluation is a separate piece of functionality and is
not a part of CFE, although it works off CFE's output. But as I pointed out
earlier, it is being integrated with CFE
Regarding EMF-based and XMLBeans parsers. Both parsers are generated from the
FESL schema file. I do not see any problem in eliminating one parser or the
other. I personally prefer to work with EMF-based parser as it is integrated
with Eclipse and allows quick turn-around cycle in the case it is required to
make changes to the schema.
From: Thilo Goetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: uima-dev@incubator.apache.org
Date: 10/22/2008 05:36 AM
Subject: Re: [VOTE] accept the Configurable Feature Extractor (CFE) into
the sandbox
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Michael Tanenblatt wrote:
> Igor Sominsky is on vacation now, so he cannot respond, but I think it
> is safe to say that he will continue to support this for the foreseeable
> future. It is something that he and I use often, and he has been
> continuing to enhance and support it.
>
> On Sep 29, 2008, at 9:51 AM, Thilo Goetz wrote:
>
>> Who will maintain this code once it's in the sandbox?
Igor, are you back? Care to comment? I'd like to see
some assurance that this is not just a code drop before
I vote.
I'm also confused about the evaluation part of CFE. I
can see that it's useful to have this sort of evaluation,
but should it really be part of a feature extraction
package? It seems a pretty independent sort of
functionality. Or maybe I just didn't understand it.
You write in your user's guide that CFE depends on both
XmlBeans and EMF. Are you using EMF for anything but
XML processing? Do you think EMF could be eliminated
and completely replaced by XmlBeans? To be clear, this
is not necessary, I'm just curious.
--Thilo
