JavaNLP meeting notes for 04/16/03

Apparently not much got done last week, so we have a set of small concrete
tasks for this week. Tomorrow at NLP lunch we will have an expert group on
the classify API, specifically what code we need to facilitate implementing
new classifiers. Next week will consist of a brief update on tasks, a report
from the classify expert group, and a tutorial from Chris on the trees
package. Thanks to Chris for bringing food next week! Any volunteers for
next week?

Chris-can you send around a copy of your JavaJobs.txt to ensure everyone has
a copy? Here are the task numbers that people volunteered for:

Rog: 1
Sep: 2
Huy: 3, 6, 12
Dan: 4, 5
Kristina: 8, 11
Chris: 9
Joseph: 7, 10

Other tasks:
- Sep: finish converting docs to document readers
- Dan: comment external classify code

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EVERYONE ADD MISSING AUTHOR TAGS THIS WEEK
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There are still 459 java files with no author tags!! That's over 35% of the
classes. Here is the breakdown by package:

      8 edu.stanford.nlp.annotation
     42 edu.stanford.nlp.classify.old
     40 edu.stanford.nlp.cluster
     58 edu.stanford.nlp.dbm
      6 edu.stanford.nlp.ie
      4 edu.stanford.nlp.ie.desc
      9 edu.stanford.nlp.ie.hmm
      3 edu.stanford.nlp.ie.merge
      1 edu.stanford.nlp.ie.ner
     19 edu.stanford.nlp.ie.pcfg
      1 edu.stanford.nlp.ie.protege
      2 edu.stanford.nlp.io
     52 edu.stanford.nlp.linalg
     12 edu.stanford.nlp.math
      1 edu.stanford.nlp.maxent.iis
      6 edu.stanford.nlp.mt
      1 edu.stanford.nlp.parser.lexparser
     22 edu.stanford.nlp.process
      1 edu.stanford.nlp.process..bak
      1 edu.stanford.nlp.process.~
    114 edu.stanford.nlp.redwoods
     13 edu.stanford.nlp.redwoods.pp
      2 edu.stanford.nlp.stats
      2 edu.stanford.nlp.swing
      7 edu.stanford.nlp.tagger.maxent
     12 edu.stanford.nlp.trees
      1 edu.stanford.nlp.trees..classic
      1 edu.stanford.nlp.trees.international
      6 edu.stanford.nlp.util
      6 edu.stanford.nlp.web
      6 edu.stanford.nlp.wsd

Everyone should make sure that their classes have author tags. It's really
easy to add author tags using bin/authorTags.pl in javanlp (thanks dan!).
For example, if I wanted to add author tags to all the classes in
ie.protege, I would type (all on one line):

~/javanlp> bin/authorTags.pl -n "Joseph Smarr (jsmarr@stanford.edu)"
src/edu/stanford/nlp/ie/protege

You can specify whole directories and/or individual classes and it will add
author tags to the files that don't have them, including adding a
class-level comment if none exists.

PLEASE USE THIS SCRIPT AND LET'S HAVE ALL OUR CLASSES TAGGED BY NEXT WEEK!!

While you're looking through these classes, please also take a moment to
consider whether the classes are worth keeping in JavaNLP or whether they
should be "attic-ed" in someplace accessible but out of the way. We don't
want JavaNLP to be full of semi-useless code that makes it seem overwhelming
and broken!

Thanks, js