How to serialize/deserialize using illinois-edison

Question

I am using Edison ( http://cogcomp.cs.illinois.edu/page/software_view/Edison ). I extract features using the curator, and save in the TextAnnotation file. How can I serialize/deserialize the file? When I directly try to serialize it, it gives an error:

static List<RelInstance> allInstance = ... 
ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(".../dataless_rel_srl/dataless-rel/Data/SemEval-2010"));
oos.writeObject(allInstances);
oos.close();

The error is :

java.io.NotSerializableException: edu.illinois.cs.cogcomp.edison.sentences.SymbolTable
    at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject0(ObjectOutputStream.java:1180)
    at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.defaultWriteFields(ObjectOutputStream.java:1528)
    at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeSerialData(ObjectOutputStream.java:1493)
    at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeOrdinaryObject(ObjectOutputStream.java:1416)
    at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject0(ObjectOutputStream.java:1174)
    at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.defaultWriteFields(ObjectOutputStream.java:1528)
    at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeSerialData(ObjectOutputStream.java:1493)
    at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeOrdinaryObject(ObjectOutputStream.java:1416)
    at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject0(ObjectOutputStream.java:1174)
    at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject(ObjectOutputStream.java:346)
    at java.util.ArrayList.writeObject(ArrayList.java:710)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
    at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.invokeWriteObject(ObjectStreamClass.java:975)
    at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeSerialData(ObjectOutputStream.java:1480)
    at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeOrdinaryObject(ObjectOutputStream.java:1416)
    at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject0(ObjectOutputStream.java:1174)
    at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject(ObjectOutputStream.java:346)
    at edu.illinois.cs.cogcomp.relationsDataless.SemEval2010Reader.saveAllOnDisk(SemEval2010Reader.java:203)
    at edu.illinois.cs.cogcomp.relationsDataless.SemEval2010Reader.main(SemEval2010Reader.java:52)

Answer 1

Try using EdisonSerializationHelper. This class is created exactly for what you want to do.