Merge pull request #375 from rzanoli/master

prepare for next development iteration
Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/hltfbk/Excitement-Open-Platform.git
Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/oferbr/Excitement-Open-Platform
New DErivBase version 1.4:
- the old DerivBase resource loader (version 1.3) is renamed DerivBasePairs
- the new DerivBase resource is loaded with the DerivBase class
- updated the descriptions of the resource's new format: it contains rule paths and the confidence scores are computed from the path length
Finalize transfer to new version of LAP_ImplBaseAE (with initializeViews() )
BIU_LAP_Test: becomes an abstract class for all tests of BIU LAPs (assuming there could be several variations)
BIUAndOpenNlpLAP: Add a new variation to the BIU LAP: This one uses also the OpenNlp segmenter, for sentence splitting and tokenizing
UimaUtils: minor
EasyFirstClient: Add a more elaborate explanation when failing when server is not running
minor
added the new DErivBase resource's artifact to pom.xml
Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master'
updated the descriptions for the new DErivBase version 1.4
minor changes in DerivBaseResourceTest class to prevent GC memory errors
updated comments and descriptions to correspond to the new format (v1.4)
Merge pull request #390 from juliakreutzer/master

New DErivBase version 1.4 (re-opened)
Tested and it works well. I am merging it.
Merge pull request #389 from oferbr/master

update BIUFullLAP for new LAP_ImplBaseAE, add new LAP BIUAndOpenNlpLAP + minor changes
- added the two types for alignment: alignment.Target and alignment.Link types.
- added "deprecated" text to old alignment (text alignment) type.
- added alignment component and annotator component interfaces to common
- added alignment types to EOP type listing
- small test class