Hi Armin, > The file is in the file system. But I don't want to create an AnalysisEngine > with AnalysisEngineFactory.createAnalysisEngineFromPath(). I'd rather like to > have an AnalysisEngineDescription. But there is not method > createAnalysisEngineDescriptionFromPath().
Right, there is none. We could add one for sake of completeness. I suppose we never needed/missed that so far. Ok, so the anwer to the original question is: there is currently no uimaFIT-way for doing this. > Is there an easy way to get an AnalysisEngineDescription from an > AnalysisEngine? Nope. Cheers, -- Richard > Cheers, > Armin > >> Am 29.04.2013 um 17:04 schrieb <[email protected]>: >> >>> Hi! >>> >>> In classical UIMA you use following code to create an >>> AnalysisEngineDescription from an XML descriptor file. >>> >>> final Path descriptorFilePath = Paths.get("/some/path/", >>> "AnalysisEngineDescriptorFile.xml"); >>> final XMLInputSource xmlInputSource = new >>> XMLInputSource(descriptorFilePath.toFile()); >>> final AnalysisEngineDescription analysisEngineDescription = >>> UIMAFramework.getXMLParser().parseAnalysisEngineDescription(xmlInputS >>> o >>> urce); >>> >>> Now you can use analysisEngineDescription with >>> org.uimafit.factory.AggregateBuilder to create an aggregate analysis engine >>> and run the pipeline with SimpePipeline.run(). >>> >>> How is the uimaFit way to do this? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Armin
