Dear UIMA users, The U-Compare Initiative is pleased to announce the first public release of U-Compare system ( http://u-compare.org/ ); an easy-to-use system for the construction and comparison of NLP workflows.
U-Compare is an integrated text mining/natural language processing system based on the UIMA Framework which provides access to the worlds largest repository of type system compatible UIMA components. The components come from a wide range of different research groups, and currently include corpus readers, syntactic parsers, semantic entity recognizers, as well as a variety of other tools. New components are being added all the time, and we expect to be adding a selection of more resources like relation extraction tools in the near future. >From these, or any UIMA components, U-Compare allows users to build complex NLP workflows by simply dragging-and-dropping components into order. These workflows may then be run from within the U-Compare system which automatically makes available a range of data visualization and comparison tools. The workflows created in U-Compare can also easily be exported and shared with other U-Compare users and because any UIMA component can be included in workflows, U-Compare also functions as a general UIMA workflow creation tool. Comparison of components and workflows is a central feature of the system, which was a task difficult to achieve with only the original Apache UIMA tools. U-Compare allows sets of components to be run in parallel on the same inputs and automatically generates statistics for all possible combinations of these components. This ability allows user to not only compare the performance of various components, but also to find optimal combinations for a given task. The system can be launch directly from the web by clicking the "Launch U-Compare" button on the U-Compare homepage: http://u-compare.org/ U-Compare is a joint project between the University of Tokyo, the Center for Computational Pharmacology at the University of Colorado Health Science Center, and the National Centre for Text Mining at the University of Manchester. Please refer to the documentation on the U-Compare web site for further details. We are looking forward to receiving feedback and contributions of compatible UIMA components from developers. Respectfully, U-Compare Initiative -- Yoshinobu Kano [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project Research Associate, the University of Tokyo / U-Compare Project Lead http://www-tsujii.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ http://u-compare.org/kano/
