> -----Original Message----- > From: Thilo Goetz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 8:57 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Python examples and industrial use of UIMA > > Andrew Borthwick wrote: > > All, > > > > I'm studying whether UIMA would make sense to add to my company's > > architecture and would appreciate it if anyone could point me to > > either of the following. We are considering using UIMA as a framework > > on which to build a web-scale NLP pipeline which would involve > > components like sentence boundary identification, tokenization, named > > entity identification, and phrase chunking. > > > > 1. Substantive examples of Python or Perl annoators, preferably > > something that both inputs and outputs consumes annotations. > > 2. More generally, could anybody point me to the use of UIMA in > > fielded industrial applications outside of IBM? I'd be particularly > > interested in talking to someone who had evaluated various > > alternatives and decided to go with UIMA. Anybody who decided to go > > with a different framework after evaulating UIMA would be helpful too. > > > > Thanks, > > Andrew Borthwick > > Principal Scientist > > Spock Networks > > On question no. 2, one example is Temis, see, e.g., > http://www.temis.com/?id=32&selt=14. >
We (Temis) have built our new corporate product on top of UIMA. We made this decision on year ago now. The choice was mainly between using UIMA or to do it ourselves. We resisted to the last option! We did a quick survey of other frameworks (GATE ...) but UIMA was more appropriated for our need of a core framework platform. We liked its homogeneousity, the quality of the code, the documentation, the quick evolution, the planned move to open source and to a commercial friendly license. Send me a private message if you want to have a talk about this. (pascal.coupet <at> temis.com). > --Thilo Pascal
