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Germany: 2nd UIMA@GSCL Workshop - 2nd CFP
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Second Call for Papers
Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA)
2nd UIMA@GSCL Workshop
September 30, 2009
Potsdam, Germany
http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/acl-lab/gscl09/workshops.de.html
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** 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
uima.gscl2009@googlemail.com 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:
uima.gscl2009@googlemail.com
=================
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/
Re: Germany: 2nd UIMA@GSCL Workshop - 2nd CFP
Posted by Thilo Goetz <tw...@gmx.de>.
I added the announcement to the website.
--Thilo
Richard Eckart de Castilho wrote:
> ================================================================================
>
>
> Second Call for Papers
> Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA)
> 2nd UIMA@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
> uima.gscl2009@googlemail.com 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:
> uima.gscl2009@googlemail.com
>
> =================
> 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/