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From: "Yoshinobu Kano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: November 14, 2008 11:05:29 AM EST
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: U-Compare first public release announcement
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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