I received this email from larry <laurecne.r.schuler@saic.com>, and the return address didn't work so I'm posting the message and my reply here. -jason
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I read that this is in a trasitional state, but the sample
grammar application does not run. I went through a
frustrating cascade of downloading software
(grok->opennlp->trove->jdom->gnu-regexp) and finally had to
give up upon a reference to a com.metamata.parse.guessFail
because I could not locate the software anywhere. metamata
is now webgain which seems to have eliminated the metamata
identifier.
I'll wait patiently for the next updated release, any
thoughts on when that may be? I'd hate to have to learn
prolog...
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The source tarball has all the necessary
dependencies in the grok/lib directory.
On a side note, the metamata parse thing is actually a sore note for us: here are my comments from grok/lib/LIBNOTES:
Metamata was bought by a company called Webgain, which stopped
distributing mparse freely. Of course, Grok was then stuck with a
couple of mparse grammars and people wanting to get a hold of the
mparse tool, which was no longer available. This jar will permit Grok
to compile and be able to use the presently compiled parsers, but this
will be changed to the ANTLR parser generator soon, and all traces of
mparse will be removed from Grok. The moral is: stick with the open
stuff.
Anyway, the needed jar, freebies.jar is present in grok/lib.
If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:
I received this email from larry <laurecne.r.schuler@saic.com>, and the return address didn't work so I'm posting the message and my reply here. -jason
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I read that this is in a trasitional state, but the sample
grammar application does not run. I went through a
frustrating cascade of downloading software
(grok->opennlp->trove->jdom->gnu-regexp) and finally had to
give up upon a reference to a com.metamata.parse.guessFail
because I could not locate the software anywhere. metamata
is now webgain which seems to have eliminated the metamata
identifier.
I'll wait patiently for the next updated release, any
thoughts on when that may be? I'd hate to have to learn
prolog...
The source tarball has all the necessary
dependencies in the grok/lib directory.
On a side note, the metamata parse thing is actually a sore note for us: here are my comments from grok/lib/LIBNOTES:
Metamata was bought by a company called Webgain, which stopped
distributing mparse freely. Of course, Grok was then stuck with a
couple of mparse grammars and people wanting to get a hold of the
mparse tool, which was no longer available. This jar will permit Grok
to compile and be able to use the presently compiled parsers, but this
will be changed to the ANTLR parser generator soon, and all traces of
mparse will be removed from Grok. The moral is: stick with the open
stuff.
Anyway, the needed jar, freebies.jar is present in grok/lib.
Either I'm doing something wrong, or colt appears to be missing.
http://tilde-hoschek.home.cern.ch/~hoschek/colt/
I checked and the colt download is available at that address. Maybe the site was down when you checked.
BTW, colt is no longer needed in the cvs'd version of Grok since Eric Friedman substituted trove classes (http://trove4j.sf.net) for the colt ones.