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  • Jason Baldridge

    Jason Baldridge - 2002-02-25

    I wrote the following to explicitly lay out some of the steps in running some Grok stuff, and thought it would be useful to post here.

    First, download the latest release for Grok:

    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/grok/grok-0.5.6-src.tgz

    Untar and gunzip it, giving you a "grok" directory. cd to "grok".
    Then try "sh ./build.sh".  You might be told that you need to set your
    $JAVA_HOME environment variable to where Java is located on your
    machine.  Once you've done that, you'll have the file grok-0.5.6.jar
    built in the grok/output directory, as well as a grok/output/classes
    directory with the compiled Java classes.

    Assuming that $GROK_HOME is where the grok code is located (for me it
    is /home/jmb/devel/grok), do the following for your classpath (this is
    for bash):

    export JARS=`echo ${GROK_HOME}/*.jar | tr ' ' ':'`
    export CLASSPATH=.:${JARS}:${GROK_HOME}/output/classes

    You can then cd to grok/samples/grammar and type:

    java opennlp.grok.Grokling simple.gram

    There are some example sentences in the README, but have a look at
    morph.xml and flat_morph_db to see the lexical items that you can
    use.

    0.5.6 is still pretty limited, and the grammar is quite small, so
    don't expect too much just yet.  :)

    Jason

     
    • Jim Nolan

      Jim Nolan - 2002-02-26

      These instructions will not work.  You also need the opennlp jar in your classpath, and some gnu package I am not familiar with.  Here is the error message:

      java -classpath /cs-dstudent/jnolan/Grok/output/grok-0.5.6.jar:$HOME/Grok/output/opennlp-0.8.2.jar opennlp.grok.Grokling simple.gram
      Loading grammar at URL: file:/cs-dstudent/jnolan/Grok/samples/grammar/simple.gram
      Loading Lex... Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: gnu/trove/THashMap
              at opennlp.grok.Grokling.<init>(Grokling.java:77)
              at opennlp.grok.Grokling.main(Grokling.java:205)

       
      • Jason Baldridge

        Jason Baldridge - 2002-02-26

        That is what the "export JARS" part of the instructions should take care of.  All of the supporting jars needed to run grok are in the Grok/lib directory.  The "export JARS" line builds up a list of all jar files contained in that directory, and then they are added to the classpath in the next line.  Otherwise, you are free to add all of them explicitly in your classpath, such as in your case, $HOME/Grok/lib/trove.jar, etc.

        Let me know if that works for you.

         
    • Heath Hunnicutt

      Heath Hunnicutt - 2002-11-01

      In order to get grok to run on simple.gram, I had to change:

      export JARS=`echo ${GROK_HOME}/*.jar | tr ' ' ':'`

      to:

      export JARS=`echo ${GROK_HOME}/lib/*.jar | tr ' ' ':'`

       

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