I added the announcement to the website. --Thilo
Richard Eckart de Castilho wrote: > ================================================================================ > > > Second Call for Papers > Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) > 2nd u...@gscl Workshop > > September 30, 2009 > Potsdam, Germany > > http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/acl-lab/gscl09/workshops.de.html > > ================================================================================ > > > ** NEWS: a one-hour beginners tutorial on UIMA will be held prior to the > workshop at the same day ** > > > For many decades, NLP has suffered from low software engineering standards > causing a limited degree of re-usability of code and interoperability of > different > modules within larger NLP systems. While this did not really hamper success > in limited task areas (such as implementing a parser), it caused serious > problems for the emerging field of language technology where the focus > is on > building complex integrated software systems, e.g., for information > extraction > or machine translation. This lack of integration has led to duplicated > software > development, work-arounds for programs written in different (versions of) > programming languages, and ad-hoc tweaking of interfaces between modules > developed at different sites. > > In recent years, the Unstructured Information Management Architecture > (UIMA) > framework has been proposed as a middleware platform which offers > integration by > design through common type systems and standardized communication > methods for > components analysing streams of unstructured information, such as natural > language. The UIMA framework offers a solid processing infrastructure that > allows developers to concentrate on the implementation of the actual > analytics > components. An increasing number of members of the NLP community thus have > adopted UIMA as a platform facilitating the creation of reusable NLP > components > that can be assembled to address different NLP tasks depending on their > order, > combination and configuration. > > This workshop aims at bringing together members of the NLP community > that are > users, developers or providers of either UIMA components or UIMA-related > tools > in order to explore and discuss the opportunities and challenges in > using UIMA > as a platform for modern, well-engineered NLP. In the context of an > emerging > NLP-oriented UIMA community, the challenge to create not only reusable, > but also > interoperable components raises particular interest. From a methodological > perspective, interoperability relies largely on UIMA type systems. > Technically, > it includes issues related to the packaging and distribution of UIMA > components. > Also, tools are important, for example to assemble complex processing work > flows, to manage the bodies of data that are to be analysed and to > visualize, > explore, and further deploy the analysis results. Finally, > interoperability is > also affected by legal issues, such as potentially incompatible licenses of > components and tools. > > The availability of ready-to-use components plays a major role in > choosing UIMA > over other alternatives. To accentuate this, the workshop puts a focus on > UIMA-based components and tools that are freely available for research. > > ====== > Topics > ====== > > Participants are invited to present applications realized using UIMA, > general > experiences using UIMA as a platform for natural language processing, as > well as > technical papers on particular aspects of the UIMA framework. > Alternatives to > and comparisons of other frameworks with UIMA are of interest, too. More > specifically, workshop topics include, but are not limited to: > > * UIMA components with a special focus on genericity and type-system > independence > * repositories of ready-to-use UIMA-based components > * (generic) type systems for UIMA > * distribution of UIMA components: documentation, licensing and > packaging > * sophisticated tools to build and manage complex processing pipelines > * experience reports combining UIMA-based components from different > sources, > as well as solutions to interoperability issues > * processing of very large data collections: scale-out, > parallelization, and > performance optimization > * analysis of results: exploration, evaluation, visualization, and > statistical analysis > * developing for UIMA: simplified APIs, debugging, unit testing, and > limitations of UIMA > > =========== > Submissions > =========== > > We invite submissions of full papers, limited to 8 pages of text, and > position > papers or papers describing ongoing work as short papers, limited to 4 > pages. > Both kinds of papers will be orally presented. Double submissions (whether > verbatim or in essence) should indicate this fact and name the workshop or > conference event also addressed. Reviewing will not be anonymous but > authors > wishing to keep their anonymity may hide their identity on demand. > > All submissions must be in English and follow the Springer LNCS style > [1] and > should be created using LaTeX. Submissions must be sent in PDF format to > [email protected] no later than July, 6th. > > Accepted submissions will appear in the GSCL conference proceedings. > > [1] http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 > > =============== > Important Dates > =============== > > July, 6 : Submission deadline > July, 20: Notification of acceptance > July, 28: Camera-ready copies due > Sept, 30: Workshop held in Potsdam in conjunction with GSCL > > ====================== > Organizers and Contact > ====================== > > * JULIE Lab, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena > * Udo Hahn > * Katrin Tomanek > * UKP Lab, Technische Universität Darmstadt > * Iryna Gurevych > * Richard Eckart de Castilho > > Please address any inquiries regarding the workshop to: > [email protected] > > ================= > Program Committee > ================= > > * Anni R. Coden, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA > * Branimir K. Boguraev, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA > * Graham Wilcock, University of Helsinki, Finland > * Dietmar Rösner, University of Magdeburg, Germany > * Iryna Gurevych, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany > * Katrin Tomanek, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany > * Leo Ferres, University of Concepcion, Chile > * Michael Tanenblatt, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA > * Nicolas Hernandez, Université de Nantes, France > * Philipp Cimiano, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands > * Richard Eckart de Castilho, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany > * Sophia Ananiadou, University of Manchester, Great Britain > * Stefan Geißler, TEMIS GmbH, Germany > * Udo Hahn, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany > > ===== > Links > ===== > > * http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/acl-lab/gscl09/ > * http://incubator.apache.org/uima > * http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=uima > * http://www.julielab.de/ > * http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/ > * http://u-compare.org/
