NLP utils based on protobuf and grpc

Preparation

• Create a folder under /data/Applications/user_name/ (Disk I/O under this folder is much faster than home directory)
• cd /data/Applications/user_name/ and follow the steps below

Check out the repository

• git clone https://github.com/samirgupta/nlputils_edg/

Initialization

• Only bash is supported. If you default shell is not bash, run bash before running the following steps.
• First create a python virtual enviroment: virtualenv --python=python2 env. Note that the virtual enviroment can be placed anywhere, not necessarily under nlputils. If you just want to use nlputils as a module, maybe you want to create the virtual environment in the parent folder of nlputils.
• Activate the virtual enviroment: . env/bin/activate
• bash ./scripts/clear_init.sh
• Set up environment path variables: . ./scripts/export_path.sh
• Run the initialization script: bash ./scripts/init.sh
• Compile document.proto to generate python codes: bash ./scripts/compile_document_proto.sh

Example

• Only bash is supported. If you default shell is not bash, run bash before running the following steps.
• Activate the virtual enviroment: . env/bin/activate
• Set up environment path variables: . ./scripts/export_path.sh. Note that these variables can be written into .bashrc so that they are set up when the terminal starts.
• Run python test/example.py, it should print a list of structured information.

Note

• Tested under bash, but not tcsh.