Re: cTAKES Groovy…Examples? Relatively low effort, potentially game changing

[John Green <jo...@gmail.com>]

I was in passionate agreement with this post by Andy, by the by.




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On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Andrew McMurry <mc...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Most Open Source frameworks come with an "project-examples.zip" folder.  
> I can't help but think that the Groovy parser code and ctakes-gui make excellent EXAMPLES for potential users. 
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ctakes/sandbox/
> Imagine if each ctakes-component had an example Groovy script that shows how to use each component complete with the pubmed citation for each! 
> http://ctakes.apache.org/components.html
> Now imagine you could just download a VM and run the examples "out of the box". 
> I'll follow up in a separate thread about the VM progress. 
> I am passionate about improving the "first time user" experience. 
> Why? John Resig (creator of jQuery) gave a convincing (if not damning) synopsis of how open source projects lose users. 
> I think our user base could be easily 10X if we follow his advice:  
> http://lanyrd.com/2009/harvard-open-source-retreat/scdrkh/
> Thoughts??  
> PS: My research interest in NLP/ machine learning methods is taking second priority to helping the "first time user" experience. 
> It is imperative we get this stuff right. 
> On Dec 4, 2013, at 7:09 AM, Tim Miller <ti...@childrens.harvard.edu> wrote:
>> Very cool. I was noticing that it was downloading the umls resources which the parser itself doesn't need -- so I made a change to not grab clinical-pipeline and grab directly the things it was getting through that reference and now it runs even faster with only a 35M initial download.
>> 
>> I'd like to check in my change -- should we keep working out of sandbox or can we maybe put groovy scripts somewhere alongside the projects they belong to? Maybe in the scripts/ directory or scripts/groovy, scripts/perl, etc.? Any opinions on this?
>> 
>> Tim
>> 
>> 
>> On 11/27/2013 12:19 PM, Chen, Pei wrote:
>>> The sample constituency parser printer should be working now...
>>> Just copy and paste the text to parser.groovy and make it executable.
>>> All you should need is groovy installed on your machine.
>>> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ctakes/sandbox/groovy/parser.groovy
>>> $ parser.groovy input
>>> Reading from directory: input
>>>  (TOP (S (NP-SBJ (NN patient)) (VP (VBD took) (NP (NP (NNS 50mg)) (PP (IN of) (NP (NP (NN aspirin)) (PP (IN for) (NP (NP (NN pain)) (PP-LOC (IN in) (NP (NN knee)))))))))(. .)))
>>> 
>>> Maybe we could create one that will output UMLS CUI/Codes... and then others could easily modify to their needs.
>>> 
>>> --Pei
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: William Karl Thompson [mailto:wkt@northwestern.edu]
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 10:46 PM
>>>> To: dev@ctakes.apache.org
>>>> Subject: RE: cTAKES Groovy...
>>>> 
>>>> That is very cool!
>>>> 
>>>> Since we're talking Groovy, I'd just like make a plug for Gradle, a fantastic
>>>> build/deployment/dependency management tool that is in many ways much
>>>> nicer to work with than Maven, though it plays nicely with Maven (for
>>>> example, it can use Maven repositories). Gradle is also proven technology:
>>>> it's the build tool for the Android operating system.
>>>> ________________________________________
>>>> From: Chen, Pei [Pei.Chen@childrens.harvard.edu]
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 4:13 PM
>>>> To: dev@ctakes.apache.org
>>>> Subject: cTAKES Groovy...
>>>> 
>>>> Tim had a good end user use case:
>>>> I just want to use the ctakes constituency parser and output the tree text to
>>>> console.
>>>> So I was inspired by Richard example of groovy...
>>>> Check out:
>>>> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ctakes/sandbox/groovy/parser.groovy
>>>> 
>>>> The groovy script will "Automagically" download the required
>>>> classes,jars,resources and automatically runs.
>>>> No longer requires the user to have any knowledge of UIMA, cTAKES, etc.
>>>> Sample:
>>>> $ parser.groovy input
>>>> Reading from directory: input
>>>> patient took 50mg of aspirin for pain in knee.
>>>> begin:0 end:48
>>>> 
>>>> Pretty cool, 'eh...
>>>> --Pei
>>