Hi Olivier, I'd be interested too but I'm not too sure I can make it to Berlin, in that case it'd be nice if one can participate remotely. Cheers, Tommaso
2011/2/22 Olivier Grisel <[email protected]> > 2011/2/22 Jörn Kottmann <[email protected]>: > > On 2/21/11 5:07 PM, Olivier Grisel 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? > >> > > Yes I am interested. Would be nice to meet you in person there. > > Great: 2 people is the minimum to kick start a hackathon on this topic > :) I will forward the announcement on the Apache Stanbol mailing list. > Maybe other people from Apache UIMA would be interested too? > > -- > Olivier > http://twitter.com/ogrisel - http://github.com/ogrisel >
