Apache Stanbol Freeling integration

Freeling is a GPL licensed language analysis tool suite. This project aims to provide a standalone server providing a RESTful API that can than be used by Apache Stanbol for NLP processing of texts.

Install Freeling

NOTE: This section is copied over from here

Reference: http://nlp.lsi.upc.edu/freeling/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&Itemid=62

Install on Ubuntu 12.04

Download Freeling 3.X from http://devel.cpl.upc.edu/freeling/downloads?order=time&desc=1:

curl -o freeling-3.0.tar.gz http://devel.cpl.upc.edu/freeling/downloads/21

Then extract the archive and follow the instructions at this address to compile and install Freeling: http://nlp.lsi.upc.edu/freeling/doc/userman/userman.pdf

Install on Mac OS X

Use brew, http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/.

Install:

brew install icu4c
brew install boost --with-icu
brew install https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/0d8d92bfcd00f42d6af777ba8bf548cbd5502638/Library/Formula/swig.rb
brew install https://raw.github.com/gist/4060323/74e4e36dfe6dee43d604e70ce281157db7ecf668/freeling.rb

Note:

• there might be issues according on which version of boost gets installed and its location (open an issue, we'll try to help).

Solution 1

Sometimes installing 1.49 instead of 1.50+ works: To do that, follow these steps:

1. ensure boost is not installed: brew uninstall boost
2. install from this formula:

brew install https://github.com/manphiz/homebrew/blob/e40bc41d84e32902d73d8c3868843470a269a449/Library/Formula/boost.rb --with-icu

Solution 2

brew uninstall icu4c
git checkout c25fd2f `brew --prefix`/Library/Formula/icu4c.rb
brew install icu4c
brew install --with-icu boost

• the install-sh file might not have the required permissions (change with chmod 755 install-sh)

Freeling Java APIs

Install Java APIs

At least JDK 6.0 is required. JDK 7.x has been tested and is also valid

Change to freeling-3.0/APIs/java.

Fix the freeling-HEAD/APIs/java/Makefile file by setting the correct parameters:

FREELINGDIR=/usr/local
SWIGDIR=/usr/share/swig2.0
JAVADIR=/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.6.0_32

...

java -> $(JAVADIR)/bin/java
jar -> $(JAVADIR)/bin/jar

Then run

make

Load the Java APIs in the local Maven cache (optional)

mvn install:install-file \
    -Dfile=freeling.jar \
    -DgroupId=edu.upc.freeling \
    -DartifactId=edu.upc.freeling \
    -Dversion=3.0 \
    -Dpackaging=jar

Freeling Configuration

Create the following folders:

 /opt/freeling
  - etc

In the etc folder, create a symbolic link to /usr/local/share/freeling (or where the share/freeling folder is located, e.g. /usr/local/Cellar/freeling/3.0/share/freeling on a Mac OS X install using brew). In the following this folder is referenced by $FREELINGSHARE

Please note that this project also provides a default configuration for Freeling. Users that want to give it a try can replace the $FREELINGSHARE/configfolder with the default configuration provided by freeling-config/config.

License:

All modules are provided under GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, in order to comply with Freeling's license requirements.

Also take a look at Freeling's copying and license information.