Support for users of CCG software closed 7-27-20

[Dung Tran <dminh365 AT gmail.com>]

Good evening All,

     I have found Curator is the best software for SRL, and I would like to implement curator in Hadoop for my school project. May I ask if anyone has experienced in running Curator in Hadoop?

Thanks,

Tom

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 6:40 PM, Sammons, Mark <mssammon AT illinois.edu> wrote:

Hi, Dagmar.

Many thanks for finding a solution and reporting it.  I will add these changes the next time I am able to spend time updating the Curator.

Best regards,

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Dagmar Gromann [mailto:dgromann AT iiia.csic.es]
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2017 3:00 PM
To: illinois-ml-nlp-users AT cs.uiuc.edu
Cc: Sammons, Mark
Subject: Curator Documentation and Installation - Suggestions

Dear Cognitive Computation Group,

I would like to first of all congratulate you on the Semantic Role Labeler Curator, which is really one fine piece of work. We investigate spatial concepts and the dependency parsing and role labeling provided by the Curator is excellent for that purpose.

However, I have a suggestion for an update of the documentation. It took me and a colleague two full days to get the software to run (others seem to have given up completely: http://www.kenvanharen.com/2012/11/comparison-of-semantic-role-labelers.html). We had all components running apart from the SRL because we could not get the Charniak parser to run. We even tried to compile it with Thrift 0.4. as suggested in the Charniak ReadMe but nothing helped. In the end it was a very trivial problem:

We had to change all the include directives adding "thrift" at the beginning - from #include <protocol/TBinaryProtocol.h> to #include <thrift/protocol/TBinaryProtocol.h> in all the files that the charniakThriftServer file calls and then it worked perfectly. Could you maybe add this change to the documentation troubleshooting section for users trying to install on Debian 8 or similar? I would like to spare other users this experience if somehow possible.

Thanks and best regards,
Dagmar Gromann