Fwd: U-Compare first public release announcement

[Grant Ingersoll <gs...@apache.org>]

FYI, might be of interest to people in Mahout-land...

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Yoshinobu Kano" <ka...@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
> Date: November 14, 2008 11:05:29 AM EST
> To: uima-user@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: U-Compare first public release announcement
> Reply-To: uima-user@incubator.apache.org
> Reply-To: kano@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
>
> 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
> kano@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
> 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/

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Grant Ingersoll

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