This would be great! I wouldn't be able to attend, but would be happy to help from afar with some planning and logistics. -Jason
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Olivier Grisel <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi all, > > I will probably attend the next edition of Berlin Buzzwords in June: > http://berlinbuzzwords.de/ > > Isabel (the organizer) told me earlier that it should be possible to > host a hackathon right after the conference. The topic about R&D > European projects that involve semantic technologies and open source > projects such as Apache Stanbol (Incubating) for instance (see > http://incubator.apache.org/stanbol/ ). > > As Stanbol has a strong dependency on OpenNLP and its statistical > models and as we will face the same legal issues with distributing > statistical models coming from copyrighted corpora I think it would be > great to use such an hackathon to quick-start an effort to build our > own annotated training corpus from free to redistribute sources such > as Wikipedia, Wikinews, DBpedia, Gutenberg... > > Would some OpenNLP developers be interested in participating to such an > event? > > -- > Olivier > http://twitter.com/ogrisel - http://github.com/ogrisel > -- Jason Baldridge Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics The University of Texas at Austin http://www.jasonbaldridge.com
