2011/2/22 Jörn Kottmann <[email protected]>: > On 2/21/11 5:07 PM, Olivier Grisel wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I will probably attend the next edition of Berlin Buzzwords in June: >> http://berlinbuzzwords.de/ >> >> Isabel (the organizer) told me earlier that it should be possible to >> host a hackathon right after the conference. The topic about R&D >> European projects that involve semantic technologies and open source >> projects such as Apache Stanbol (Incubating) for instance (see >> http://incubator.apache.org/stanbol/ ). >> >> As Stanbol has a strong dependency on OpenNLP and its statistical >> models and as we will face the same legal issues with distributing >> statistical models coming from copyrighted corpora I think it would be >> great to use such an hackathon to quick-start an effort to build our >> own annotated training corpus from free to redistribute sources such >> as Wikipedia, Wikinews, DBpedia, Gutenberg... >> >> Would some OpenNLP developers be interested in participating to such an >> event? >> > Yes I am interested. Would be nice to meet you in person there.
Great: 2 people is the minimum to kick start a hackathon on this topic :) I will forward the announcement on the Apache Stanbol mailing list. Maybe other people from Apache UIMA would be interested too? -- Olivier http://twitter.com/ogrisel - http://github.com/ogrisel
