[Kim-discussion] [Interested-in-kim] problem of populating instances from my own corpus

Philip Alexiev philip.alexiev at ontotext.com
Fri Jun 4 10:33:26 EDT 2010


Happy that we could help :)

All the best,
Philip


On 06/04/2010 04:54 PM, Yang Fangkai wrote:
> Ah.....yeah, it works now.
>
> I think I made mistakes in both of the points you mentioned.
>
> Thank you so much for your help!
>
> Fangkai
>
> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Philip Alexiev
> <philip.alexiev at ontotext.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Hi again
>>
>>
>> I tried with this file and annotated it with no problems.
>>
>> Some things to consider:
>>
>> * Do your text files have  .txt  extension ?
>> * Do you give the populater the file itself as a parameter, or a directory.
>> It should be a directory. Doesn't work with files.
>>
>> All the best,
>> Philip
>>
>>
>> On 06/04/2010 04:21 PM, Yang Fangkai wrote:
>>
>> Sorry I forgot to attach the file
>> Fangkai
>> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Yang Fangkai<wolfgang.yang at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi, Philip,
>>          Yesterday I found a software that transformed all .txt file
>> to .html file and all annotation is done. However, this is not a final
>> solution because in the future I may have pdf or .doc file to
>> annotate.
>>           I am sure the attached document is not annotated. I checked
>> it in this way: I have a html file which contains the same content
>> with the .txt file, and use toolpopulate to annotate both of them, and
>> I use keyword "Rice University" in entity pattern search (object,
>> whose name is exactly equal to "Rice Univerisity"), and in the
>> resuult, I saw the html doc is retrieved, but .txt not. I think this
>> convinced me that .txt file is not annotated.
>>         Also, from the panel of toolpopulate, it returns the following
>> message after I chose .txt file to annotate:
>> Checking (please wait) ...
>> Check: SUCCESS!
>> Processing file(s) ...
>> Completed: 100% ( 1 of 1 files processed )
>> Indices optimized !
>> -=[ TOTALS ]=-
>> Directory files: 1
>> Start time: Fri Jun 04 08:13:57 CDT 2010
>> End time: Fri Jun 04 08:13:57 CDT 2010
>> Total time (ms): 47
>> -=[ STATISTICS ]=-
>> Document count: 1
>> Document size (kb): 0
>> Create time (ms): 0
>> Parse features time (ms): 0
>> Annotation time (ms): 0
>> Store time (ms): 0
>> Index sync time (ms): 0
>> Index opt time (ms): 0
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> End Time: Fri Jun 04 08:13:57 CDT 2010
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> Finished.
>>        From thie message it doesn't look like the file is annotated.
>>        Thank you very much for your help!
>> Fangkai
>> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 6:02 AM, Philip Alexiev
>> <philip.alexiev at ontotext.com>  wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hello Fangkai,
>> Could you send us some of your txt files that you are sure are not
>> annotated? This could help us a lot in solving the problem.
>> Thanks,
>> Philip
>> On 06/03/2010 08:00 PM, Yang Fangkai wrote:
>>
>>
>> hi, Anton,
>>          I tried HTML files, and the population works. But this just
>> doesn't work for txt file...
>>         I checked the populator.xml and found the following configuration:
>>         <INPUT_DOC_EXT>doc,htm,html,txt,page,xml</INPUT_DOC_EXT>
>>         I suspect the populator has already been configured to process
>> txt file. So where is the problem? Thank you!
>> Fangkai
>> 2010/6/3 Yang Fangkai<wolfgang.yang at gmail.com>:
>>
>>
>> Anton,
>> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Anton Andreev
>> <Anton.Andreev at ontotext.com>    wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hello Fangkai,
>> First I would like to point out that the kim-discussion:
>> http://ontotext.com/mailman/listinfo/kim-discussion is dedicated for
>> asking
>> technical questions like this one. Next time please use the
>> kim-discussion
>> mailing list, not this one. Thanks.
>>
>>
>> Sorry for the mistake. I will use that list the next time.
>>
>>
>> Now back to your problem:
>> What version of KIM do you use? KIM 2.4?
>>
>>
>> Yes. I am using KIM2.4 under Windows XP.
>>
>>
>> Are you using the KIMGate hybrid - a GATE developer with KIM's default
>> pipeline or the tool called "populater" again from the bin folder?
>>
>>
>> I started KIM by running startkim.bat, and the populator by running
>> toolPopulate.cmd in tool folder. I didn't see the tool "populator" in
>> the bin folder.
>>
>>
>> The later
>> only needs a document source folder and uses an already running KIM
>> instance. Do you see that the documents are being annotated? What
>> results do
>> you expect, what is missing?
>>
>>
>> Here is what I expect. I have a corpus containing about 2000 docs, and
>> I want to query over these docs. So I plan to use toolPopulate to
>> extract entities over these docs (this is what I am trying to do), and
>> then query over them. I expect to see the entities populated from
>> these docs, but I didn't see any meaningful entities when I query the
>> entity from the KIM GUI.
>> I don't know if the above makes sense. Thank you!
>> Fangkai
>>
>>
>> The steps you are doing are correct in general.
>> Best regards,
>> Anton Andreev
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>> On 3.6.2010 г. 18:17 ч., KIM Platform info newsletter wrote:
>>
>>
>> Dear List,
>>           I am trying to use Populate GUI to populate entities from my
>> own corpus. I have downloaded the raw file of PennTree bank, i.e., the
>> articles from Wall Street Journal in plain text form, and refer to the
>> folder in Populate GUI. However, it seems no entities is populated. I
>> try to add an .xml file with the same name of the text file, but still
>> doesn't work. (I check that by first deleting all files from
>> /context/default/populated, and populate entities from a file, and
>> check the entities by querying the entities at
>> http://localhost:8080/kim, but no meaningful entities found). I am
>> wondering if I miss some steps or important configurations. Thank you
>> very much!
>> Best,
>> Fangkai
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>> Fangkai Yang, Ph.D student
>> Taylor Hall 3.150A
>> Department of Computer Sciences
>> The University of Texas at Austin
>> Austin, 78712-0233, Texas
>> USA
>> http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~fkyang
>> email: fkyang at cs.utexas.edu
>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Philip Alexiev<philip.alexiev at ontotext.com>
>> Software Engineer
>> Ontotext AD
>>
>>
>> --
>> Fangkai Yang, Ph.D student
>> Taylor Hall 3.150A
>> Department of Computer Sciences
>> The University of Texas at Austin
>> Austin, 78712-0233, Texas
>> USA
>> http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~fkyang
>> email: fkyang at cs.utexas.edu
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