Julien Nioche wrote: > 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?
Well, I'm not giving away those grants ;-) In my very personal opinion, it depends on what kind of integration. The simple integration where UIMA annotations are indexed as Lucene fields has probably been done half a dozen times, though I haven't seen an open source/Apache version. If you're talking about a deep integration for semantic search, using the new Lucene payloads, now there's an interesting project. Again, my personal opinion. >> 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 Excellent. I'm very interested in achieving some kind of interoperability between UIMA and TC37, so your advice will be very welcome. --Thilo
