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                   CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Towards Enhanced Interoperability for Large HLT Systems:
                        UIMA for NLP

Full-day workshop held in conjunction with LREC 2008,
May 31, 2008, Marrakech, Morocco

http://watchtower.coling.uni-jena.de/~coling/uimaws_lrec2008/

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Workshop Programme:
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Invited Talk: Accelerating Advances in Text Analytics
   Anthony Levas (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center)

Session: Component Repositories

• ClearTK: A UIMA Toolkit for Statistical Natural Language Processing P. V. Ogren, P. G. Wetzler and S. J. Bethard
• An Overview of JCoRe, the JULIE Lab UIMA Component Repository U. Hahn, E. Buyko, R. Landefeld, M. Mühlhausen, M. Poprat, K. Tomanek and J. Wermter

Session: Systems

• UIMA for NLP based Researchers' Workplaces in Medical Domains M. Kunze and D. Rösner
• UIMA-based Clinical Information Extraction System G. K. Savova, K. Kipper-Schuler, J. D. Buntrock and C. G. Chute
• Experiences with UIMA for online information extraction at Thomson Corporation T. Heinze, M. Light and F. Schilder
• Flexible UIMA Components for Information Retrieval Research C. Müller, T. Zesch, M.-C. Müller, D. Bernhard, K. Ignatova, I. Gurevych and M. Mühlhäuser

Session: Diverse

• CFE - a system for testing, evaluation and machine learning of UIMA based applications I. Sominsky, A. Coden and M. Tanenblatt
• Tools for UIMA Teaching and Development M. Kunze and D. Rösner
• Shallow, Deep and Hybrid Processing with UIMA and Heart of Gold U. Schäfer

For a more detailed programm, please see
http://watchtower.coling.uni-jena.de/~coling/uimaws_lrec2008/

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Workshop Description:
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The development and incremental modification of large and complex HLT
systems has long been an art rather than a workflow guided by software
engineering practices and principles. The interoperability of system
components was hard to achieve, exchange of different modules a
pain-staking task due to the low level of abstraction of specifications
which described interfaces to connect with each other, and data and
control flow interdependencies between various modules.

UIMA, the Unstructured Information Management Architecture, is an
open-platform middleware structure for dealing with unstructured
information (text, speech, audio, video data), originally launched by
IBM. In the meantime, the Apache Software Foundation has established an
incubator project for developing UIMA-based software
(http://incubator.apache.org/uima/). The Organization for the
Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) has established
a Technical Committee to standardize the UIMA specification.
Accordingly, an increasing number of NLP research institutes as well as
HLT companies all over the world are basing their system development
efforts on UIMA specifications to adhere to emerging standards.

In this workshop we want to bring representatives from various NLP
research sites together who have gained experience in working with UIMA
specifications in the framework of complex NLP systems.

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Workshop Organizers:
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Udo Hahn , Jena University, Germany
Thilo Götz, IBM Germany, Germany
Eric W. Brown, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Hamish Cunningham, University of Sheffield, UK
Eric Nyberg, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA

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Workshop Committee:
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Eric W. Brown, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Ekaterina Buyko, Jena University, Germany
Hamish Cunningham, University of Sheffield, UK
Dave Ferrucci, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Stefan Geissler, TEMIS Deutschland, Germany
Thilo Götz, IBM Germany, Germany
Iryna Gurevych, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Udo Hahn, Jena University, Germany
Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA
Eric Nyberg, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA
Sameer Pradhan, BBN, USA
Dietmar Roesner, University of Magdeburg, Germany
Graham Wilcock, University of Helsinki, Finland

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