Hi,
Re funding: we are optimistic that there will be more UIMA innovation
awards by IBM this year. Watch this space for the announcement. I would
think that a Knowtator/UIMA integration could be a candidate.
what about a UIMA / Lucene integration? Would that also be a good
candidate for funding as well?
BTW, are people familiar with the annotation standards work that is going
on at ISO (http://www.tc37sc4.org/)? This bears watching as well, as it
might evolve into the annotation standard that everybody's been waiting for.
At least that seems to be the plan of the folks working on it ;-).
I have been involved in the LIRICS project (http://lirics.loria.fr/)
which is related to the TC37. GATE is used for the reference
implementation of the ISO norms defined by this group and I was in
charge of defining the reference API's for the norms. Someone else is
now looking after this project from the GATE side, but to answer your
question, I am quite familiar with it :-)
Julien
