[Corpora-List] Germany: 2nd UIMA at GSCL Workshop - 1st Call for Participation

[Katrin Tomanek]

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First Call for Participation

Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA)
2nd UIMA at GSCL Workshop

October 1st, 2009
Potsdam, Germany

http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/acl-lab/gscl09/workshops.en.html

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Programm
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UIMA Tutorial: Oct 1, 9.00-10.00 am
UIMA Workshop: Oct 1, 10.30am-3pm

The list of accepted papers is available through
http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/acl-lab/gscl09/workshops.en.html

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Workshop Description
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For many decades, NLP has suffered from low software engineering
standards causing a limited degree of re-usability of code and
interoperability of different modules within larger NLP systems. While
this did not really hamper success in limited task areas (such as
implementing a parser), it caused serious problems for the emerging
field of language technology where the focus is on building complex
integrated software systems, e.g., for information extraction or machine
translation. This lack of integration has led to duplicated software
development, work-arounds for programs written in different (versions
of) programming languages, and ad-hoc tweaking of interfaces between
modules developed at different sites.

In recent years, the Unstructured Information Management Architecture
(UIMA) framework has been proposed as a middleware platform which offers
integration by design through common type systems and standardized
communication methods for components analysing streams of unstructured
information, such as natural language. The UIMA framework offers a solid
processing infrastructure that allows developers to concentrate on the
implementation of the actual analytics components. An increasing number
of members of the NLP community thus have adopted UIMA as a platform
facilitating the creation of reusable NLP components that can be
assembled to address different NLP tasks depending on their order,
combination and configuration.

This workshop aims at bringing together members of the NLP community
that are users, developers or providers of either UIMA components or
UIMA-related tools in order to explore and discuss the opportunities and
challenges in using UIMA as a platform for modern, well-engineered NLP.
In the context of an emerging NLP-oriented UIMA community, the challenge
to create not only reusable, but also interoperable components raises
particular interest. From a methodological perspective, interoperability
relies largely on UIMA type systems. Technically, it includes issues
related to the packaging and distribution of UIMA components. Also,
tools are important, for example to assemble complex processing work
flows, to manage the bodies of data that are to be analysed and to
visualize,explore, and further deploy the analysis results. Finally,
interoperability is also affected by legal issues, such as potentially
incompatible licenses of components and tools.

The availability of ready-to-use components plays a major role in
choosing UIMA over other alternatives. To accentuate this, the workshop
puts a focus on UIMA-based components and tools that are freely
available for research.



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Organizers and Contact
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     • JULIE Lab, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
        • Udo Hahn
        • Katrin Tomanek
     • UKP Lab, Technische Universität Darmstadt
        • Iryna Gurevych
        • Richard Eckart de Castilho

Please address any inquiries regarding the workshop to:
uima.gscl2009 at googlemail.com

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Program Committee
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     • Anni R. Coden, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
     • Branimir K. Boguraev, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
     • Graham Wilcock, University of Helsinki, Finland
     • Iryna Gurevych, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
     • Katrin Tomanek, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
     • Leo Ferres, University of Concepcion, Chile
     • Michael Tanenblatt, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
     • Nicolas Hernandez, Université de Nantes, France
     • Philipp Cimiano, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
     • Richard Eckart de Castilho, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
     • Sophia Ananiadou, University of Manchester, Great Britain
     • Stefan Geißler, TEMIS GmbH, Germany
     • Udo Hahn, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany



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