Nicolas, your post on opennlp-user@ made me realize we didn't take care of helping you here yet. Did you get the ACK for your SGA? Regards, Tommaso
2011/5/26 Nicolas Hernandez <[email protected]> > Hi > > French data models for the Apache UIMA Sandbox HMM Tagger have been > submitted via the jira issue > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-2146 > > Documentation on the procedure to build the models from the French > Treebank can be found here (accidentally it is in French...) > > http://enicolashernandez.blogspot.com/2011/05/construire-des-modelisations-du-french.html > > The SLA has been sent and we are waiting for receiving the ack. > > I have prepared an IP form but have not right to commit it... > > Finaly is there an "appropriate volunter" for executing the IP > Clearance processing? > > I hope I have nothing forgotten. > > Best regards > > /Nicolas > > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Thilo Götz <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 5/19/2011 15:04, Nicolas Hernandez wrote: > >> Hello Everyone > >> > >> Jörn, yes it (training MaxEnt models for OpenNLP from the French > >> Treebank) is actually part of our plan (building a French-Speaking > >> UIMA Community). We wanted also to contribute to the OpenNLP project > >> since no models was available for French processing! > >> > >> About the right to train models on this data set and then distribute > >> them under Apache License 2: It took time for us to get the right to > >> do it, but I think it was because we were the first to ask for. Now > >> they know about it. I know that the maltparser team > >> (http://maltparser.org/) would be also interested by the grant. You > >> may ask for the French Treebank authors. I can also ask them for > >> letting an explicit mention about the right to do it on their web > >> site. > >> > >> As far as I know, the data training set for the English and German POS > >> models are not freely available, are they ? > > > > The English model was trained on the Brown corpus, which is free. > > The German model was trained on a non-free corpus. > > > >> > >> Eventually, Jörn, I m not sure to understand. Do you think the IP > >> clearance process is not adapted for submitting our contribution ? > >> > >> Tommaso, I will blog post the procedure I used to train the models. > >> There is nothing really special. I used some freely available (under > >> AL2) AE components. The HMM learner is already present in the HMM > >> Tagger addon. The few other UIMA components I used are also available > >> on some google forges (uima-common, uima-connectors, > >> uima-type-mapper). > >> > >> Regards > >> > >> /Nicolas > >> > >> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Jörn Kottmann <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> On 5/19/11 9:00 AM, Tommaso Teofili wrote: > >>>> > >>>> If you also plan to donate the models I think the IP clearance is the > >>>> right > >>>> way both for UIMA and for you as a researcher. > >>>> > >>> > >>> In my opinion it is very important that we have the possibility > >>> to retrain the models on the data set, otherwise it will block > >>> code changes and bug fixes. > >>> > >>> Therefore I think we need the right to train models on this > >>> data set and then distribute them under AL 2.0. > >>> > >>> Jörn > >>> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > [email protected] > # > http://enicolashernandez.blogspot.com > http://www.univ-nantes.fr/hernandez-n > # > Laboratoire LINA-TALN CNRS UMR 6241 > tel. +33 (0)2 51 12 58 55 > # > Université de Nantes - Institut Universitaire de Technologie - > Département Informatique > tel. +33 (0)2 40 30 60 67 >
