Quicklime

Quicklime is a web-based visualization and annotation tool for working with Concrete objects.

Quicklime includes:

• JavaScript libraries for visualizing NLP data, including:
  • constituency parse trees
  • coreference
  • dependency parse graphs
  • Named Entity Recognition (NER) tags
  • Part Of Speech (POS) tags
• a small Python server that hosts the Quicklime HTML/CSS/JS files and handles Thrift RPC calls

concrete-js vs. Quicklime

The Quicklime project is a visualization and annotation tool that uses concrete-js. concrete-js is a lower-level library for manipulating Concrete data-structures. The Quicklime repository includes a copy of the concrete-js library - you do not need to checkout the concrete-js repository in order to use Quicklime.

Installation

You can install Quicklime from this repo using:

python setup.py install

You can also install Quicklime using pip:

pip install quicklime

Viewing Communications

To view a Concrete Communication, run the qlook.py script:

qlook.py COMMUNICATION_FILENAME

then point your browser at http://localhost:8080

To change the port qlook.py uses, use the long form --port PORT or short form -p PORT flag.

Quicklime also supports viewing collections of Communications. COMMUNICATION_FILENAME can also be the path to a tar.gz archive, a zip archive, or a directory of Communication files (with extension .comm or .concrete.) In these cases, all Communications are loaded and you may then select which Communication (by id) to view within the browser.

This script reads in a Concrete Communication and starts a small Bottle.py webserver that shows an HTML visualization of the Communication.