Fwd: ISO exchange protocols group

[Jason Baldridge <ja...@gmail.com>]

FYI, and also: anyone interested in attending this meeting? -Jason

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From: Nancy Ide <id...@cs.vassar.edu>
Date: Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 12:09 PM
Subject: ISO exchange protocols group
To: Jason Baldridge <ja...@gmail.com>
Cc: Ide Nancy <id...@cs.vassar.edu>


Hi Jason,

I am heading up an ISO working group to develop exchange protocols for web
services for NLP tools. The underlying motivation is that we need these for
our NSF-funded LAPPS project (http://lapps.anc.org), in which we are
wrapping NLP tools for delivery via the LAPPS Grid web service platform.
OpenNLP is one of the first sets of tools we are including. A preliminary
document (which needs to be updated a bit to reflect discussion at the last
meeting) is at
http://www.anc.org/LAPPS/EP/Meeting-2013-09-26-Pisa/ep-draft.pdf, if you
are interested.

There is a meeting of this group on Dec 12-13 at Brandeis University
outside Boston, at which I hope to include major US developers. I Know that
you yourself may not be able to attend, but if possible we'd like to have
an appropriate representative from OpenNLP present so that we can get input
and reactions. So far the people who have attended meetings have all been
Europeans, who are actively involved in several projects directly related
to this work, but it has been very difficult to reach out to the US
community.

Please let me know if you or someone else from OpenNLP would be interested
in attending the meeting. There is no commitment to be involved in any way
in ISO--the main reason I am doing this as an ISO group is to ensure
maximum outreach. (You are of course welcome to joint the group and
participate by attending meetings and/or being on the email list.)

Best,
Nancy

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