Get Java API by JavaCpp? about mitie

[davisking]

It's possible to add one. We would use SWIG to do it, just as the current Java MITIE API does. However, why don't you want to use the existing Python training API? You can load the trained models with the Java API once training finishes.

[wihoho]

Thanks for your reply.

Unfortunately, we are only allowed to use Java in production. And we would like to train the model continuously with users' feedback.

So I saw the the issue regarding to Java api to train models in February. I really really appreciate that the API will be available soon. Thanks a lot.

[davisking]

The training process can take a fair amount of time to run and also must be run on a beefy machine. We generated the existing model files on a 12 core machine with 128GB of RAM. Depending on what part of the training process you run, you could easily consume large fractions of the RAM of such a machine. So the training effectively consumes all the resources of a large server. It's not the sort of thing I would normally suggest being launched automatically as part of a larger application. You certainly could, but it's resource intensive. Normally it's best to manually generate the models on some large workstation and then copy the generated files into your production system and use the Java APIs. You will also usually want to check the accuracy of the generated model and then adjust your training data annotations or add more depending on the results. So training is usually a manual and iterative process. Given all that, do you still want a Java training API? :)

[wihoho]

Hi davisking,

I totally agree with you.

I have some experience with training SVM models using images. The process is slow and consumes a large amount of resources.

But we have very specific cases to deal with, and we are very likely to limit the amount of data to train the model. Still the restriction is that we are only allowed to use Java in production. And we really want to make the whole process automatically,.

If possible, thank you very much. :)

[wihoho]

By the way, this is really the best named entity recognition package that I have ever seen.

The speed and accuracy is very impressive. Moreover, it is friendly to commercial usages.

[davisking]

Thanks :)

We will add a Java API onto our todo list.

[davisking]

There is now a MITIE Java API thanks to this PR #32