jefferya / nerve

Named Entity Recognition Vetting Environment

NERVE

Named Entity Recognition Vetting Environment

This is a javascript web service that allows you to upload an XML document, run Stanford NER to recognize entities, and to look up and add URIs to new or pre-existing entities. The current version supports three schemas: TEI (Text Encoding Initiative); Orlando (the Orlando Project's biography and writing schemas) and CWRC (Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory).

Lookups are currenty limited to geonames, VIAF, and the CWRC (Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory) entity collection.

License and documentation forthcoming soon!

Building from source.

prerequisites: glassfish, ant, git, npm, node
Note: paths are system dependent.

1. Checkout repository

git clone [email protected]:cwrc/NERVE.git (with key)
git clone git://github.com/cwrc/NERVE.git (without key)

2. Build server

First, install the node dependencies. From the NERVE/Server directory, run

npm i

Second, build the war file. The default task in the NERVE/Server/build.xml ant file will output the built server application to NERVE/Server/dist/Server.war.
The task relies upon the j2ee.server.home property being set to your glassfish server installation.
The task requires the lib path to be set to the JJJRMI.packed jar file in the NERVE/lib directory.
For example, from the NERVE/Server directory, run

ant -lib ../lib/JJJRMI.packed-0.4.20.jar -D"j2ee.server.home"=/home/glassfish5/glassfish/

3. Deploy to GlassFish Server

asadmin deploy ./dist/Server.war

If already deployed, redeploy to GlassFish Server

asadmin redeploy --name=Server ./dist/Server.war

4. Build client

Requires browserify, and sass.

npm i -g browserify
npm i -g sass

> cd ../NERScriber
> npm i
> cd ../client
> npm i
> npm run build-js
> npm run build-css
> cp -r public_html/ /home/glassfish5/glassfish/domains/domain1/docroot/nerve

5. Link Client to Server

In the client side of the app there a file 'assets/serverlocation'. This file contains the location of the web socket, the default value is 'ws://localhost:8080/NERVESERVER/NerveSocket', the 'localhost:8080' needs to be changed to the ip/name of your server.

Notes

Other commands of note

asadmin start-domain [domain_name]
asadmin stop-domain [domain_name]
asadmin list-applications