Re: Changes to ConceptMapper

[Marshall Schor <ms...@schor.com>]

This was replied to on uima-user where it was cross-posted - see
http://markmail.org/message/wmvmh5mrp5w262vn . -Marshall

Dan McCreary wrote:
> Perhaps we can write a short definition for what the ConceptMapper does.
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> The following definition from the main UIMA sandbox web page:
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>    *ConceptMapper is a powerful, highly configurable dictionary UIMA-based
> annotator. *
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> is not very descriptive of its function.  How about this one...
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> *The ConcpetMapper a highly configurable, high performance dictionary lookup
> tool that adds synonyms and related terms to a token using one of several
> matching algorithms.  It can be used to create an enhanced search experience
> for the users.
> *
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Michael Tanenblatt <
> slothrop@park-slope.net> wrote:
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>> It is not clear how many people are using ConceptMapper at this point,
>> since it hasn't been officially released yet, but in working with some
>> projects that are currently using it, we have found some inefficiencies that
>> we'd like to correct. Unfortunately, some of the proposed modifications will
>> cause changes to the public interfaces (method parameters, returned
>> objects). If we are going to fix these problems, we can either just go
>> forward and do it, breaking any code that might depend on the current public
>> interfaces, or we could preserve ConceptMapper and create a separate new
>> system, a ConceptMapper2 with the changes. If ConceptMapper is currently
>> only used as a UIMA annotator and changes to the public interfaces will not
>> cause anyone problems, I'd personally prefer to just make the changes to
>> ConceptMapper and not have a new, second version, particularly as it hasn't
>> even been *released* yet. On the other hand, I wouldn't want to go breaking
>> anyone's currently working systems.
>>
>> So, are there any comments from anyone currently using ConceptMapper?
>>
>> Thanks...m
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