Request for your views and suggestions

[Balkrishnan <ba...@gmail.com>]

Hi Marshall,

I have successfully used the UIMA along with the web-server logs, to generate
analytics like the path-traversed by a web-user, the time spent on a web-page by
that user and so on.

Can you please let me know if my solution(described below) for generating the
channel-usability analytics makes use of the UIMA framework appropriately(in
this case, the website on the webserver is the channel).

The way I have done is:
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Step[1]. Created an annotator to which the web-server logs can be fed. (The
annotator uses one of the functions of the Simple-Server analytics, whose output
is an XML file.)

Step[2]. I have a DOM-parser that parses this XML file and feeds the data into a
MySQL database.

Step[3]. I then prepare my SQL-queries that use the data in the database to
generate my reports. (I am working on a JSP solution for reporting) 

Step[4]. I am planning to schedule the Steps [1] and [2] above, as a
scheduled-job on the web-server itself, so that the log-file processing could be
automated. 
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I would like to know if there is a better way of using the UIMA in the current
context. ThankYou.

Kind Regards,
Balkrishnan.V

Re: Request for your views and suggestions

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

Hi Balkrishnan,

I'm sorry to say I don't think I have any particular insights to offer
here.  I am aware that a frequent use of UIMA is to combine various
annotators of unstructured information, and feed the results into a
database, as you are doing, and then use other tooling that has been
developed for databases to analyze and report on this data.

-Marshall

Balkrishnan wrote:
> Hi Marshall,
>
> I have successfully used the UIMA along with the web-server logs, to generate
> analytics like the path-traversed by a web-user, the time spent on a web-page by
> that user and so on.
>
> Can you please let me know if my solution(described below) for generating the
> channel-usability analytics makes use of the UIMA framework appropriately(in
> this case, the website on the webserver is the channel).
>
> The way I have done is:
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Step[1]. Created an annotator to which the web-server logs can be fed. (The
> annotator uses one of the functions of the Simple-Server analytics, whose output
> is an XML file.)
>
> Step[2]. I have a DOM-parser that parses this XML file and feeds the data into a
> MySQL database.
>
> Step[3]. I then prepare my SQL-queries that use the data in the database to
> generate my reports. (I am working on a JSP solution for reporting) 
>
> Step[4]. I am planning to schedule the Steps [1] and [2] above, as a
> scheduled-job on the web-server itself, so that the log-file processing could be
> automated. 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I would like to know if there is a better way of using the UIMA in the current
> context. ThankYou.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Balkrishnan.V
>
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