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 <section name="UIMA Workshop at GSCL 2009 in Potsdam/Germany">

 <p>
   There will be a <a href="https://docs.google.com/View?id=dft23bqs_3c7qnzg6x">workshop
   dedicated to UIMA</a> at <a href="https://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/acl-lab/gscl09/index.en.html">GSCL 2009</a>,
   the bi-annual conference of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology.
   Please find the CFP below.
 </p>


 <p>
 <pre>
 ================================================================================

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

 September 30, 2009
 Potsdam, Germany

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

 ================================================================================

 ** NEWS: a one-hour beginners tutorial on UIMA will be held prior to the workshop at the same day **


 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.

 ======
 Topics
 ======

 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

 ===========
 Submissions
 ===========

 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@googlemail.com no later than July, 6th.

 Accepted submissions will appear in the GSCL conference proceedings.

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

 ===============
 Important Dates
 ===============

 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

 ======================
 Organizers and Contact
 ======================

     * 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@googlemail.com

 =================
 Program Committee
 =================

     * 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
     * Dietmar Rösner, University of Magdeburg, Germany
     * 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

 =====
 Links
 =====

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

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	<title>UIMA Workshop at GSCL 2009 in Potsdam/Germany</title>
	<author email="uima-dev@apache.org">
	UIMA dev team</author>
	</properties>

	<body>

	<section name="UIMA Workshop at GSCL 2009 in Potsdam/Germany">

	<p>
	There will be a <a href="https://docs.google.com/View?id=dft23bqs_3c7qnzg6x">workshop
	dedicated to UIMA</a> at <a href="https://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/acl-lab/gscl09/index.en.html">GSCL 2009</a>,
	the bi-annual conference of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology.
	Please find the CFP below.
	</p>


	<p>
	<pre>
	================================================================================

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

	September 30, 2009
	Potsdam, Germany

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

	================================================================================

	NEWS: a one-hour beginners tutorial on UIMA will be held prior to the workshop at the same day


	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.

	======
	Topics
	======

	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

	===========
	Submissions
	===========

	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@googlemail.com no later than July, 6th.

	Accepted submissions will appear in the GSCL conference proceedings.

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

	===============
	Important Dates
	===============

	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

	======================
	Organizers and Contact
	======================

	* 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@googlemail.com

	=================
	Program Committee
	=================

	* 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
	* Dietmar Rösner, University of Magdeburg, Germany
	* 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

	=====
	Links
	=====

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

	</p>

	</section>

	</body>
	</document>