opener-kaf2json

KAF to JSON

Even if KAF is the true OpeNER data representation format, it is not very friendly for humans. It is also difficult to parse and work with it, specially for new users that are not familiarized with KAF. This is part of the feedback we got from the OpeNER hackathon held in Amsterdam during first days of July. To ease the post-processing of the results by any potential user, we are designing an alternative JSON format to output translate KAF, and turn its complexity into a much more usable format. Although, the specification for this JSON is currently work in progress, we have already a version that covers the most relevant parts from the KAF representation.

Confused by some terminology?

This software is part of a larger collection of natural language processing tools known as "the OpeNER project". You can find more information about the project at the OpeNER portal. There you can also find references to terms like KAF (an XML standard to represent linguistic annotations in texts), component, cores, scenario's and pipelines.

Quick Use Example

Installing the kaf2json can be done by executing:

gem install opener-kaf2json

Please keep in mind that all components in OpeNER take KAF as an input and output KAF by default.

Command line interface

You should now be able to call the kaf2json as a regular shell command: by its name. Once installed the gem normally sits in your path so you can call it directly from anywhere.

This aplication reads a text from standard input in order to convert it to JSON.

cat some_kind_of_kaf_file.kaf | kaf2json

The output will look like the following JSON:

{
    "text"      : "Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard van Oranje -Nassau (Baarn , 31 januari 1938 ) is sinds 30 april 1980 koningin van het Koninkrijk der Nederlandén ",
    "language"  : "nl",
    "terms"     : {},
    "sentiments": [],
    "entities"  : {},
    "opinions"  : {}
}

Webservices

You can launch a webservice by executing:

kaf2json-server

This will launch a mini webserver with the webservice. It defaults to port 9292, so you can access it at http://localhost:9292.

To launch it on a different port provide the -p [port-number] option like this:

kaf2json-server -p 1234

It then launches at http://localhost:1234

Documentation on the Webservice is provided by surfing to the urls provided above. For more information on how to launch a webservice run the command with the --help option.

Daemon

Last but not least the kaf2json comes shipped with a daemon that can read jobs (and write) jobs to and from Amazon SQS queues. For more information type:

kaf2json-daemon -h

Description of dependencies

This component runs best if you run it in an environment suited for OpeNER components. You can find an installation guide and helper tools in the OpeNER installer and an installation guide on the Opener Website

At least you need the following system setup:

Depenencies for normal use:

• JRuby 1.7.9 or newer
• libarchive, on Debian/Ubuntu based systems this can be installed using sudo apt-get install libarchive-dev

Where to go from here

• Check the project website
• Checkout the webservice

Report problem/Get help

If you encounter problems, please email [e-mail] or leave an issue tracker.

Contributing

1. Fork it http://github.com/opener-project/kaf2json/fork
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request