2011/4/4 Jörn Kottmann <[email protected]>: > On 2/22/11 2:20 PM, Jörn Kottmann wrote: >> >> 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. > > It turned out that I will not attend the conference, so maybe there is > another > opportunity one day.
I am very sorry to learn this. Anybody else from OpenNLP would be able to attend? Here is the wiki page with a description of the hackathon: http://berlinbuzzwords.de/wiki/semantic-hackathon -- Olivier http://twitter.com/ogrisel - http://github.com/ogrisel
