Both of these seem OK to me. I did a quick check on RUTAL including Bing web search and trademarks (USPTO) search - didn't find anything.
UIMA-RUTAL: +1 UIMA-TRL: +1 -Marshall On 4/22/2013 5:35 AM, Peter Klügl wrote: > I agree with Marshall in most points. > > Here are some additional comments: > > RUCOTALA is too long in my opinion. > > RUCOLA and RUCOTALA are very similar: The acronym is a bit constructed and > you won't actively use the full name. I think RUCOLA is better than > RUCOTALA, > because it is shorter and a real word. > > TRL: The name itself is not as nice as others, but it is short and you > can actively use > the full name (UIMA Text Rule Language). I think this is important when > you talk > to people outside of the UIMA community. They instantely know what you > are talking about. > On the other side, that are just three word put together, which doesn't > sound completely right. > > RUCOTALA was derived from the fact that the name should refer to > something about "text" and maybe "annotation". > If we reduce that name and remove everything that isn't really > important, you end up with "RUTAL" > (Rule-based Text Annotation Language), which I actually prefer a lot > over RUCOTALA. I have found no problematic (legal) stuff > concerning "rutal" yet. > > I propose, therefore, a new name and cast two votes: > > UIMA-RUTAL: +1 > UIMA-TRL: +1 > > Best, > > Peter > > On 18.04.2013 16:54, Marshall Schor wrote: >> I'm basically +1 for any of these. >> >> Some specific comments: >> UIMA-TRL - good that it's short an simple. >> >> For the rest of the candidates, I think in actual documentation, the full >> names >> should not use the upper-case acronym convention - it disrupts the >> readability, >> in my opinion. >> >> In general, I think the shorter names are preferable. >> >> -Marshall >> >> On 4/18/2013 6:10 AM, Peter Klügl wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> we are currently looking for a new name for the Apache UIMA TextMarker >>> system >>> (language and workbench) and invite the UIMA comunity to vote for a name. >>> This is not a formal vote. The vote should be cast for one of the following >>> options, but is not limited to those. >>> >>> Option 1: >>> name: UIMA-TRL >>> (full) name: UIMA Text Rule Language >>> package identifier: trl >>> >>> Option 2a: >>> name: UIMA-RUCOLA >>> (full) name: UIMA RUle-based, COncise text annotation LAnguage >>> package identifier: rucola >>> >>> Option 2b: >>> name: UIMA-RUCOLA >>> (full) name: UIMA RUle-COre (text) LAnguage >>> package identifier: rucola >>> >>> Option 3: >>> name: UIMA-RUCOTALA >>> (full) name: UIMA RUle-based, COncise Text Annotation LAnguage >>> package identifier: rucotala >>> >>> >>> Please cast your vote(s): >>> [ ] +1 Option ... is a suitable name >>> [ ] 0 Don't care for option ... >>> [ ] -1 Option ... is not OK, because ... >>> >>> All votes are welcome, but only votes of UIMA PMC members are binding. Votes >>> with -1 must provide some substantial (e.g. legal) objections. >>> >>> The previous discussion about possible names can be found here: >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-2811 >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Peter >>> >
