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| <title>UIMA Workshop at LREC 2008 in Marrakech/Morocco</title> |
| <author email="twgoetz@gmx.de"> |
| UIMA Workshop organizers</author> |
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| <section name="UIMA Workshop at LREC 2008"> |
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| <p> |
| There will be a <a href="https://watchtower.coling.uni-jena.de/~coling/uimaws_lrec2008/">workshop |
| dedicated to UIMA</a> at <a href="https://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/">LREC 2008</a> |
| (the sixth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation). Please find the CFP below. |
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| CALL FOR PAPERS |
| Towards Enhanced Interoperability for Large HLT Systems: |
| UIMA for NLP |
| Full-day workshop held in conjunction with LREC 2008, |
| May 31, 2008, Marrakech, Morocco |
| Submission deadline: 29 February 2008 |
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| The development and incremental modification of large and complex HLT |
| systems has long been an art rather than a workflow guided by software |
| engineering practices and principles. The interoperability of system |
| components was hard to achieve, exchange of different modules a |
| pain-staking task due to the low level of abstraction of specifications |
| which described interfaces to connect with each other, and data and |
| control flow interdependencies between various modules. |
| UIMA, the Unstructured Information Management Architecture, is an |
| open-platform middleware structure for dealing with unstructured |
| information (text, speech, audio, video data), originally launched by |
| IBM. In the meantime, the Apache Software Foundation has established an |
| incubator project for developing UIMA-based software |
| (<a href="https://uima.apache.org/">https://uima.apache.org/</a>). The Organization for the |
| Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) has established |
| a Technical Committee to standardize the UIMA specification. |
| Accordingly, an increasing number of NLP research institutes as well as |
| HLT companies all over the world are basing their system development |
| efforts on UIMA specifications to adhere to emerging standards. |
| As far as NLP proper is concerned, Carnegie Mellon University's Language |
| Technology Institute is hosting an UIMA Component Repository web site |
| (<a href="https://uima.lti.cs.cmu.edu">https://uima.lti.cs.cmu.edu</a>), where developers can post information |
| about their analytics components and anyone can find out more about free |
| and commercially available UIMA-compliant analytics. Additionally, free |
| analytic tools that can work with UIMA include those from the General |
| Architecture for Text Engineering (GATE - <a href="https://gate.ac.uk/">https://gate.ac.uk/</a>) and |
| OpenNLP (<a href="https://opennlp.sourceforge.net/">https://opennlp.sourceforge.net/</a>) communities, as well as Jena |
| University's Language & Information Engineering (JULIE) |
| (<a href="https://www.julielab.de">https://www.julielab.de</a>) Lab. Commercial analytics are available from |
| IBM, as well as from other software vendors such as Attensity, |
| ClearForest, Temis and Nstein. |
| In this workshop we want to bring representatives from various NLP |
| research sites together who have gained experience in working with UIMA |
| specifications in the framework of complex NLP systems. As there are |
| already several large HLT systems that have been integrated with UIMA, |
| we also encourage papers at the workshop which are in the form of case |
| studies on those systems. We also aim at joining the results of their |
| work to discuss and possibly elaborate on emerging UIMA standards for |
| NLP systems. |
| =================== |
| Paper Submissions |
| =================== |
| We seek high-quality papers which report on experience using UIMA for |
| the design and implementation of complex NLP systems. However, papers |
| reporting on experience using other middleware frameworks and software |
| engineering practices in this context are also welcome. Both papers from |
| academia as well as industry are solicited. The size of long paper |
| should not exceed 8 pages, the size of short papers and demo |
| descriptions should not exceed 4 pages (using the LREC formatting |
| style). For details, please consult the submission section on the |
| workshop website. |
| ================== |
| Important Dates |
| ================== |
| February 29, 2008 - Deadline for workshop papers |
| March 26, 2008 - Notification of acceptance |
| April 4, 2008 - Camera-ready papers due |
| May 31, 2008 - Workshop in Marrakech |
| For any inquiries regarding the workshop please contact Udo Hahn |
| (udo.hahn@uni-jena.de). |
| ======================= |
| Organising Committee |
| ======================= |
| Udo Hahn (Jena University, Germany) |
| Thilo Götz (IBM Germany, Germany) |
| Eric W. Brown (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA) |
| Hamish Cunningham (University of Sheffield, UK) |
| Eric Nyberg (Carnegie-Mellon University, USA) |
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| Program Committee |
| ==================== |
| Sophia Ananiadou (University of Manchester, NACTEM, UK) |
| Branimir Boguraev (IBM Watson Research Center, USA) |
| Eric W. Brown (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA) |
| Ekaterina Buyko (Jena University, Germany) |
| Hamish Cunningham (University of Sheffield, UK) |
| Dave Ferrucci (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA) |
| Stefan Geissler (TEMIS Deutschland, Germany) |
| Thilo Götz (IBM Germany, Germany) |
| Iryna Gurevych (TU Darmstadt, Germany) |
| Udo Hahn (Jena University, Germany) |
| Marti Hearst (University of California, Berkeley, USA) |
| Larry Hunter (University of Colorado, USA) |
| Nancy Ide (Vassar College, USA) |
| Eric Nyberg (Carnegie-Mellon University, USA) |
| Sameer Pradhan (BBN, USA) |
| Dietmar Roesner (University of Magdeburg, Germany) |
| John Tait (University of Sunderland, UK) |
| Graham Wilcock (University of Helsinki, Finland) |
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