[Corpora-List] Germany: 2nd UIMA at GSCL Workshop - CFP

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

September 30, 2009
Potsdam, Germany

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

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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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Topics
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Participants are invited to present applications realized using UIMA, 
general
experiences using UIMA as a platform for natural language processing, as 
well as
technical papers on particular aspects of the UIMA framework. 
Alternatives to
and comparisons of other frameworks with UIMA are of interest, too. More
specifically, workshop topics include, but are not limited to:

     * UIMA components with a special focus on genericity and type-system
       independence
     * repositories of ready-to-use UIMA-based components
     * (generic) type systems for UIMA
     * distribution of UIMA components: documentation, licensing and 
packaging
     * sophisticated tools to build and manage complex processing pipelines
     * experience reports combining UIMA-based components from different 
sources,
       as well as solutions to interoperability issues
     * processing of very large data collections: scale-out, 
parallelization, and
       performance optimization
     * analysis of results: exploration, evaluation, visualization, and
       statistical analysis
     * developing for UIMA: simplified APIs, debugging, unit testing, and
       limitations of UIMA

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Submissions
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We invite submissions of full papers, limited to 8 pages of text, and 
position
papers or papers describing ongoing work as short papers, limited to 4 
pages.
Both kinds of papers will be orally presented. Double submissions (whether
verbatim or in essence) should indicate this fact and name the workshop or
conference event also addressed. Reviewing will not be anonymous but authors
wishing to keep their anonymity may hide their identity on demand.

All submissions must be in English and follow the Springer LNCS style 
[1] and
should be created using LaTeX. Submissions must be sent in PDF format to
uima.gscl2009 at googlemail.com no later than July, 6th.

Accepted submissions will appear in the GSCL conference proceedings.

[1] http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0

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Important Dates
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July, 6 : Submission deadline
July, 20: Notification of acceptance
July, 28: Camera-ready copies due
Sept, 30: Workshop held in Potsdam in conjunction with GSCL

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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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Links
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     * http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/acl-lab/gscl09/
     * http://incubator.apache.org/uima
     * http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=uima
     * http://www.julielab.de/
     * http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/
     * http://u-compare.org/

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