Great, thanks! I have since found the Mahout incubator proposal,
which also talks about NLP and mentions UIMA. I really like that
text, and it looks like a lot of work went into it. Why not put
(some of) it on the Mahout website?
--Thilo
Isabel Drost wrote:
On Wednesday 30 January 2008, Thilo Goetz wrote:
I have a little bit of background in applying ML to various
NLP tasks such as text classification, POS tagging and
entity detection.
Certainly that is interesting for us.
Would these kinds of feature selection tasks be in scope for Mahout, or
would you consider that a separate problem to be dealt with elsewhere?
Sure - if someone wants to work on feature selection, we would be happy to
welcome him in our project.
Anyway, I'll certainly hang out here and see where this is
going. If things are happening around text/NLP, I may be able
to contribute.
Glad to have you here! I am especially happy to have someone from the UIMA
project over here.
I'd also like to mention that over in the UIMA incubator
project, we have a sandbox project going that does Hidden Markov
Model-based POS tagging, with promising results. Not sure if
there can be any synergies there.
Before going to Apache we actually thought about integrating our results as
UIMA components - if that turns out to be possible. So I guess, there
certainly will be synergies.
