I'm still working on getting the clinical-pipeline (AggregatePlaintextUMLSProcessor) to run from groovy, using the parser.groovy as a starting point
A side issue to the main point of this post: The first issue is already marked as a TODO in parser.groovy -- about downloading models. I am working around that for now by programmatically downloading all models needed and the LookupDesc_Db.xml from SVN in the same way parser.groovy downloads the sentence detector model, because things within the ctakes-*-res jars aren't being found by org.apache.ctakes.core.resource.FileLocator#getAsStream Another issue is some of the jars that are used by the assertion component: med-facts-i2b2-1.2-SNAPSHOT.jar med-facts-zoner-1.1.jar jcarafe-ext_2.9.1-0.9.8.3.RC4.jar jcarafe-core_2.9.1-0.9.8.3.RC4.jar I download those also separately from SVN and add them using statements like this: this.class.classLoader.rootLoader.addURL( new URL(libLocation + jarName) ); The bigger issue is the following I was getting an error about scala, so I added the following to the Grapes annotation in my groovy script @Grab(group='org.scala-lang', module='scala-library', version='2.9.0'), @Grab(group='org.scala-tools.sbinary', module='sbinary_2.9.0', version='0.4.0'), Those grapes now appear in my grapes repo. But I am getting the following error, and I don't know why ScopeParser cannot "see" scala.ScalaObject which I believe is defined in one of the scala jars that I added to the rootLoader as I described above. scope model: /C:/usr/meTAKES/using-groovy/org/apache/ctakes/assertion/models/scope.model Caught: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: scala/ScalaObject java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: scala/ScalaObject at org.mitre.medfacts.i2b2.annotation.ScopeParser.<init>(ScopeParser.java:22) at org.apache.ctakes.assertion.medfacts.AssertionAnalysisEngine.initialize(AssertionAnalysisEngine.java:121) at org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.impl.PrimitiveAnalysisEngine_impl.initializeAnalysisComponent(PrimitiveAnalysisEngine_impl.java:250) at org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.impl.PrimitiveAnalysisEngine_impl.initialize(PrimitiveAnalysisEngine_impl.java:156) at org.apache.uima.impl.AnalysisEngineFactory_impl.produceResource(AnalysisEngineFactory_impl.java:94) at org.apache.uima.impl.CompositeResourceFactory_impl.produceResource(CompositeResourceFactory_impl.java:62) at org.apache.uima.UIMAFramework.produceResource(UIMAFramework.java:269) at org.apache.uima.UIMAFramework.produceAnalysisEngine(UIMAFramework.java:387) at org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.asb.impl.ASB_impl.setup(ASB_impl.java:254) at org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.impl.AggregateAnalysisEngine_impl.initASB(AggregateAnalysisEngine_impl.java:431) at org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.impl.AggregateAnalysisEngine_impl.initializeAggregateAnalysisEngine(AggregateAnalysisEngine_impl.java:375) at org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.impl.AggregateAnalysisEngine_impl.initialize(AggregateAnalysisEngine_impl.java:185) at org.apache.uima.impl.AnalysisEngineFactory_impl.produceResource(AnalysisEngineFactory_impl.java:94) at org.apache.uima.impl.CompositeResourceFactory_impl.produceResource(CompositeResourceFactory_impl.java:62) at org.apache.uima.UIMAFramework.produceResource(UIMAFramework.java:269) at org.apache.uima.UIMAFramework.produceAnalysisEngine(UIMAFramework.java:387) at org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.asb.impl.ASB_impl.setup(ASB_impl.java:254) at org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.impl.AggregateAnalysisEngine_impl.initASB(AggregateAnalysisEngine_impl.java:431) at org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.impl.AggregateAnalysisEngine_impl.initializeAggregateAnalysisEngine(AggregateAnalysisEngine_impl.java:375) at org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.impl.AggregateAnalysisEngine_impl.initialize(AggregateAnalysisEngine_impl.java:185) at org.apache.uima.impl.AnalysisEngineFactory_impl.produceResource(AnalysisEngineFactory_impl.java:94) at org.apache.uima.impl.CompositeResourceFactory_impl.produceResource(CompositeResourceFactory_impl.java:62) at org.apache.uima.UIMAFramework.produceResource(UIMAFramework.java:269) at org.apache.uima.UIMAFramework.produceAnalysisEngine(UIMAFramework.java:387) at org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.asb.impl.ASB_impl.setup(ASB_impl.java:254) at org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.impl.AggregateAnalysisEngine_impl.initASB(AggregateAnalysisEngine_impl.java:431) at org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.impl.AggregateAnalysisEngine_impl.initializeAggregateAnalysisEngine(AggregateAnalysisEngine_impl.java:375) at org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.impl.AggregateAnalysisEngine_impl.initialize(AggregateAnalysisEngine_impl.java:185) at org.uimafit.factory.AnalysisEngineFactory.createAggregate(AnalysisEngineFactory.java:505) at org.uimafit.factory.AggregateBuilder.createAggregate(AggregateBuilder.java:200) at org.uimafit.factory.AggregateBuilder$createAggregate.call(Unknown Source) at cTAKES-with-resources.run(cTAKES-with-resources.groovy:365) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: scala.ScalaObject ... 32 more