Hello all, this is in my opinion great news for the UIMA community! uimaFIT is a great project with a huge code and user base so I look forward to see it land in Apache UIMA. For the code contribution, as far as I can understand, an IP clearance [1] may be needed. Cheers, Tommaso
[1] : http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/index.html 2012/5/25 Richard Eckart de Castilho <[email protected]> > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > >
