I received advice on this list from James Masanz to add a couple things to
AggregatePlainTextUMLSProcessor.xml, in order to add a CSV dictionary lookup to
my cTAKES processing. I chose to instead make a copy of
AggregatePlainTextUMLSProcessor.xml with the additions, and pointed Run > Load
AE at that new file. This resulted in a quite uninformative run-time error
which I reported but no-one has offered any suggestions on.
I’ve now set up Eclipse with all the needed plugins and cTAKES files – a
challenge in itself – in order to try to isolate the problem somewhat. The
error seems to occur in the 2nd invocation of
DictionaryLookupAnnotator.configInit(), with the complaint while processing
…\workspace\ctakes\ctakes-dictionary-lookup-res\target\classes\org\apache\ctakes\dictionary\lookup\LookupDesc_Db.xml
that it is “Unable to find external resource with key:DbConnection”.
Digging a bit further, it looks like the 1st time it constructs a QualifiedName
it constructs “/DictionaryLookupAnnotatorDB/DbConnection” which it is able to
find, but the 2nd time it constructs “/DictionaryLookupAnnotator/DbConnection”
which it is not. This second time is due to the recommended addition of
<delegateAnalysisEngine key="DictionaryLookupAnnotator">
<import
location="../../../ctakes-dictionary-lookup/desc/analysis_engine/DictionaryLookupAnnotatorCSV.xml"/>
</delegateAnalysisEngine>
in the AE file.
Please advise.
