Introduction

This simple application implements an ingestion process to:

retrieve the documents from a specified ElasticSearch source,
send the selected content from these documents to NLP REST service receiving back the annotations from the text,
send the annotations with selected metadata to specified ElasticSearch sink.

The ingestion parameters (source, sink, fields mapping, etc.) can be set in config.yml file (in config directory).

Usage

Firstly install the Python libraries specified in requirements.txt.

To run: python main.py --config config/config.yml

The ingestion process properties are configured in config.yml.

Entries under source key specify the ElasticSearch source.

Entries under sink key specify the ElasticSearch sink.

Entries under mapping key define the mapping of the document fields for the ingestion.

The sub-entry source defines the field names that contain:

text-field - the free text to be processed,
docid-field - the unique identifier of the document,
persis-fields - a list of fields to be send back to the sink alongside each annotation entry.

The sub-entry batch defines the possible portion of documents to be processed according to the date. The used fields are:

date-field - the name of the field containing the date,
date-format - the format of the date/time used to specify the time window by the user (below)
date-start and date-end - the time window to be processed.

The sub-entry sink specifies additional options during sending the processed annotations:

split-index-by-field - the name of the field in the returned annotations the value of which will be used as a prefix for the index name (e.g., used to send annotations of different types to separate indices).