Hello everybody, we would like to propose the contribution of uimaFIT to Apache UIMA. uimaFIT provides an API that facilitates using UIMA embedded in other Java code, which is also helpful for unit tests. It also provides context injection features such as annotations on class member fields which in UIMA component which are initialized from the UIMA context.
uimaFIT already is a proven product on its own and has an established user base (cf. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]). But we think that having uimaFIT hosted with Apache UIMA would allow and encourage more people to use it and we could get more feedback that can be used to further improve uimaFIT. It has been quite some time that we last talked about uimaFIT. Since then, I did another iteration over the documentation of uimaFIT in its wiki. I don't claim it to be perfect, but I think it is more ordered now and contains less duplicate information. Also, I finally see a possibility time-wise to address whatever work may be necessary in the contribution process. We only have a rough idea about the process and its requirements. If you are interested, I'd be happy to talk about it. Best regards, -- Richard [1] http://jochenleidner.posterous.com/are-you-fit-for-uima-uimafit-provides-support [2] http://www.uima-hpc.de/en/technical.html [3] http://code.google.com/p/dkpro-core-asl/ [4] http://code.google.com/p/cleartk/ [5] http://biolemmatizer.sourceforge.net/ [6] http://rxinformatics.umn.edu/clas.html [7] http://www.ohloh.net/p/uimafit [8] http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Cuimafit -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Eckart de Castilho Technical Lead Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP-TUD) FB 20 Computer Science Department Technische Universität Darmstadt Hochschulstr. 10, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany phone [+49] (0)6151 16-7477, fax -5455, room S2/02/B117 [email protected] www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de Web Research at TU Darmstadt (WeRC) www.werc.tu-darmstadt.de -------------------------------------------------------------------
