Can't use -outputDir and -inputDir with ToMap (unless Yatea file already exists) about alvisnlp HOT 1 CLOSED

Pay attention: this one's brutal.

It's a bad combination of -inputDir and inhibitCheck.

When running for the first time, alvisnlp will convert the value for the parameter yateaFile in module entities.tomap. Since it is a relative path, then it will use the -inputDir as bases and look for an existing file.

However neither corpus/test/batch/0000/yatea/corpus/default/xml/candidates.xml or corpus/test/batch/0000/output/yatea/corpus/default/xml/candidates.xml exist. So the convertion returns yatea/corpus/default/xml/candidates.xml without base.

alvisnlp does not complain it doesn't exists because of inhibitCheck. When the module runs, it fails because it opens an nonexistent file.

Solution

First, the conversion has been modified on Bibliome/bibliome-java-utils@8d728f5. If the file is not found in any inputDir then it returns the path with the first inputDir as a base. That's actually way better because input files will always have a base rooted on a inputDir.

The change has been pushed and exposed on the maven repo.

@ldeleger
In order to function you must swap the two -inputDir in your command line.

from alvisnlp.