Last call for paper First French-speaking meeting around the framework Apache UIMA
Nantes, France, 7-11 July 2009 http://www.uima-fr.org/ Organized by the LINA CNRS UMR 6241 - University of Nantes http://www.lina.univ-nantes.fr/ As part of the 10th edition of the Libre Software Meeting (LSM/RMLL) under the conferences topic "Libre resources and software for scientific research" http://2009.rmll.info/Call-for-Communication-paper.html?lang=en IMPORTANT DATES May 29th, 2009: Intention of participation (stand for the registration) **NEW** May 29th, 2009: Paper Submission Deadline **NEW** June 3rd, 2009: Acceptance Notification **NEW** July 7-11 2009: Conference and tutorial (to determine precisely with the LSM organizers) OBJECTIVES The complex nature of NLP applications -and language itself- involves mixing different models, resources and algorithms in the same process, leading to interoperability and data exchange issues. The Apache UIMA (Unstructured Information Management Architecture http://incubator.apache.org/uima) framework offers appealing solutions to these problems. Apache UIMA is an open, industrial-strength, scalable and extensible platform for creating, integrating and deploying un-(/semi-)structured information (text, audio, video...) management applications which help to build the bridge from unstructured information to structured knowledge. Apache UIMA dissociates the engineering middleware problems from NLP issues, its principles (semantic search and content analytics) are undergoing a standardization effort at OASIS (http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/uima/), its international community is very active, and its Apache license fits research objectives and allows collaboration with industrial partners. >From 7 to 11 July 2009, the 10th edition of the LSM/RMLL (Libre Software Meeting) will take place in Nantes, France. The LSM is an opportunity for all sort of public (experts, beginners, professionals or just curious people) to come together around the free software. It is an event managed by Free, Libre and Open Source Software users'associations from the whole country. We would like to use this opportunity to organize a special meeting around Apache UIMA to encourage the development of a user and developer French-speaking community (http://www.uima-fr.org). We plan to organize a one day meeting with both conferences and a tutorial session. This meeting will be organized under the topic "Libre resources and software for scientific research" of the RMLL conferences. TOPICS * Any Domain Type Systems Definition * Multilingual, multidocument or multi-modal analysis component development * Third-part tools integration * Natural Language and Speech Processing applications development * Distributed Worflow deployment and web services deployment * User-sensitive UIMA tools development (Graphical CAS/Worflow editor...) * Using UIMA as an environment for teaching NLP We particularly wish to push forward contributions which involve French Language processing. INVITED SPEAKER Pr. Udo Hahn, Head of Julie Labs (http://www.julielab.de). SUBMISSION FORMAT Authors may submit short papers (up to 4 pages in length). The languages of proposal will be French or English. Please send your submission in PDF to [email protected] with "RMLL UIMA Submission" in the subject. Format should follow the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences (LNCS) templates http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 (For Latex follow the Sample Latex File). Demonstration proposals are also welcome. INSCRIPTION **NEW** Thanks to address your intention of participation by mail to [email protected] with "LSM UIMA Participation" in the subject. Please specify the name and the affiliation of all participants. This declaration stands for the registration. There is no registration fee. Before the deadline, some low-cost accomodations will be offered by the LSM organizers. http://2009.rmll.info/ ORGANISATION LINA CNRS UMR 6241 - University of Nantes http://www.lina.univ-nantes.fr/ Contact Nicolas.Hernandez (@univ-nantes.fr) -- [email protected] -- http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/info/perso/permanents/hernandez # Laboratoire LINA-TALN CNRS UMR 6241 tel. +33 (0)2 51 12 58 55 # Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Nantes - Département Informatique tel. +33 (0)2 40 30 60 67
