Download all the Curator and annotator dependencies and model files.
/home/james/curator $ ant $ sh bootstrap.sh
Now we have everything we need to run the annotator and Curator servers.
We can use one big machine to run everything (annotators and the Curator) in a single Java Virtual Machine (JVM).
$ pwd /home/james/curator $ sh bin/curator-local.sh --port 9090 --threads 10 --annotators configs/annotators-local.xml
However usually you will want to run annotation servers on separate machines and in different JVMs.
Load annotation servers on one or more machines.
$ pwd /home/james/curator $ sh bin/illinois-pos-server.sh --port 9091 & $ sh bin/illinois-chunk-server.sh --port 9092 & $ sh bin/illinois-ner-server.sh --port 9093 & $ sh bin/illinois-coref-server.sh --port 9094 & $ sh bin/stanford-parser-server.sh --port 9095 &
Now configure and run the Curator.
$ pwd /home/james/curator $ cp configs/annotators-example.xml configs/annotators.xml $ emacs annotators.xml change the host fields to correspond to the servers you loaded $ sh bin/curator.sh --port 9090 --threads 10 --annotators configs/annotators.xml
The Curator is now running. Let us attempt to connect a simple client.
$ pwd /home/james/curator $ cd client-examples/java $ ant $ sh runclient.sh curatorhostname 9090
We can now shutdown the annotators by sending a kill signal (^C or kill PID). This will cause the servers to gracefully quit.
To learn more about the Curator server and annotation servers check the README
files in docs.
If you are interested in using the Curator as a user we recommend you read
CuratorDemo.java in client-examples/java.