Re: CFP: Workshop on Open Infrastructures and Analysis Frameworks for HLT
The workshop program, along with links to the full papers, is now available: http://glicom.upf.edu/OIAF4HLT/Program.html I'm looking forward to seeing many of you there. I'll be staying at DCU (College Park). -- Jens On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Jens Grivolla wrote: > The list of accepted papers is now available: > http://glicom.upf.edu/OIAF4HLT/Papers.html > > For anybody interested in attending the workshop and COLING, please > remember that the early registration deadline is tomorrow, July 2nd. > > Looking forward to seeing many of you there... > > -- Jens > > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Jens Grivolla wrote: > >> Workshop on Open Infrastructures and Analysis Frameworks for HLT >> >> >> http://glicom.upf.edu/OIAF4HLT/ >> >> At the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING >> 2014) >> Helix Conference Centre at Dublin City University (DCU) >> 23-29 August 2014 >> >> Description >> --- >> >> Recent advances in digital storage and networking, coupled with the >> extension of human language technologies (HLT) into ever broader areas and >> the persistence of difficulties in software portability, have led to an >> increased focus on development and deployment of web-based infrastructures >> that allow users to access tools and other resources and combine them to >> create novel solutions that can be efficiently composed, tuned, evaluated, >> disseminated and consumed. This in turn engenders collaborative development >> and deployment among individuals and teams across the globe. It also >> increases the need for robust, widely available evaluation methods and >> tools, means to achieve interoperability of software and data from diverse >> sources, means to handle licensing for limited access resources distributed >> over the web, and, perhaps crucially, the need to develop strategies for >> multi-site collaborative work. >> >> 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 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, two main frameworks, UIMA and GATE, have emerged that >> aim to allow the easy integration of varied tools through common type >> systems and standardized communication methods for components analysing >> unstructured textual information, such as natural language. Both frameworks >> offer 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 have adopted one of these >> frameworks as a platform for facilitating the creation of reusable NLP >> components that can be assembled to address different NLP tasks depending >> on their order, combination and configuration. Analysis frameworks also >> reduce the problem of reproducibility of NLP results by formalising >> solution composition and making language processing tools shareable. >> >> Very recently, several efforts have been devoted to the development of >> web service platforms for NLP. These platforms exploit the growing number >> of web-based tools and services available for tasks related to HLT, >> including corpus annotation, configuration and execution of NLP pipelines, >> and evaluation of results and automatic parameter tuning. These platforms >> can also integrate modules and pipelines from existing frameworks such as >> UIMA and GATE, in order to achieve interoperability with a wide variety of >> modules from different sources. >> >> Many of the issues and challenges surrounding these developments have >> been addressed individually in particular projects and workshops, but there >> are ramifications that cut across all of them. We therefore feel that this >> is the moment to bring together participants representing the range of >> interests that comprise the comprehensive picture for community-driven, >> distributed, collaborative, web-based development and use for language >> processing software and resources. This includes those engaged in >> development of infrastructures for HLT as well as those who will use these >> services and infrastructures, especially for multi-site collaborative work. >> >> >> ### Workshop Objectives >> >> The overall goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for discussion of >> the requirements for an envisaged open “global laboratory” for HLT research >>
Re: CFP: Workshop on Open Infrastructures and Analysis Frameworks for HLT
The list of accepted papers is now available: http://glicom.upf.edu/OIAF4HLT/Papers.html For anybody interested in attending the workshop and COLING, please remember that the early registration deadline is tomorrow, July 2nd. Looking forward to seeing many of you there... -- Jens On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Jens Grivolla wrote: > Workshop on Open Infrastructures and Analysis Frameworks for HLT > > > http://glicom.upf.edu/OIAF4HLT/ > > At the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING > 2014) > Helix Conference Centre at Dublin City University (DCU) > 23-29 August 2014 > > Description > --- > > Recent advances in digital storage and networking, coupled with the > extension of human language technologies (HLT) into ever broader areas and > the persistence of difficulties in software portability, have led to an > increased focus on development and deployment of web-based infrastructures > that allow users to access tools and other resources and combine them to > create novel solutions that can be efficiently composed, tuned, evaluated, > disseminated and consumed. This in turn engenders collaborative development > and deployment among individuals and teams across the globe. It also > increases the need for robust, widely available evaluation methods and > tools, means to achieve interoperability of software and data from diverse > sources, means to handle licensing for limited access resources distributed > over the web, and, perhaps crucially, the need to develop strategies for > multi-site collaborative work. > > 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 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, two main frameworks, UIMA and GATE, have emerged that aim > to allow the easy integration of varied tools through common type systems > and standardized communication methods for components analysing > unstructured textual information, such as natural language. Both frameworks > offer 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 have adopted one of these > frameworks as a platform for facilitating the creation of reusable NLP > components that can be assembled to address different NLP tasks depending > on their order, combination and configuration. Analysis frameworks also > reduce the problem of reproducibility of NLP results by formalising > solution composition and making language processing tools shareable. > > Very recently, several efforts have been devoted to the development of web > service platforms for NLP. These platforms exploit the growing number of > web-based tools and services available for tasks related to HLT, including > corpus annotation, configuration and execution of NLP pipelines, and > evaluation of results and automatic parameter tuning. These platforms can > also integrate modules and pipelines from existing frameworks such as UIMA > and GATE, in order to achieve interoperability with a wide variety of > modules from different sources. > > Many of the issues and challenges surrounding these developments have been > addressed individually in particular projects and workshops, but there are > ramifications that cut across all of them. We therefore feel that this is > the moment to bring together participants representing the range of > interests that comprise the comprehensive picture for community-driven, > distributed, collaborative, web-based development and use for language > processing software and resources. This includes those engaged in > development of infrastructures for HLT as well as those who will use these > services and infrastructures, especially for multi-site collaborative work. > > > ### Workshop Objectives > > The overall goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for discussion of > the requirements for an envisaged open “global laboratory” for HLT research > and development and establish the basis of a community effort to develop > and support it. To this end, the workshop will include both presentations > addressing the issues and challenges of developing, deploying, and using > the global laboratory for distributed and collaborative efforts and > discussion that will identify next steps for moving forward, fostering > commun
Re: CFP: Workshop on Open Infrastructures and Analysis Frameworks for HLT
The submission deadline for the workshop was just extended significantly to align with some of the other COLING 2014 workshop. The new dates are: Paper Submission Deadline: 1st June 2014 Author Notification Deadline: 30th June 2014 Camera-Ready Paper Deadline: 10th July 2014 Workshop: 23rd August 2014 You can find the workshop description and CFP at http://glicom.upf.edu/OIAF4HLT/ I hope to see you there and look forward to your contributions. -- Jens On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Jens Grivolla wrote: > Workshop on Open Infrastructures and Analysis Frameworks for HLT > > > http://glicom.upf.edu/OIAF4HLT/ > > At the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING > 2014) > Helix Conference Centre at Dublin City University (DCU) > 23-29 August 2014 > > Description > --- > > Recent advances in digital storage and networking, coupled with the > extension of human language technologies (HLT) into ever broader areas and > the persistence of difficulties in software portability, have led to an > increased focus on development and deployment of web-based infrastructures > that allow users to access tools and other resources and combine them to > create novel solutions that can be efficiently composed, tuned, evaluated, > disseminated and consumed. This in turn engenders collaborative development > and deployment among individuals and teams across the globe. It also > increases the need for robust, widely available evaluation methods and > tools, means to achieve interoperability of software and data from diverse > sources, means to handle licensing for limited access resources distributed > over the web, and, perhaps crucially, the need to develop strategies for > multi-site collaborative work. > > 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 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, two main frameworks, UIMA and GATE, have emerged that aim > to allow the easy integration of varied tools through common type systems > and standardized communication methods for components analysing > unstructured textual information, such as natural language. Both frameworks > offer 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 have adopted one of these > frameworks as a platform for facilitating the creation of reusable NLP > components that can be assembled to address different NLP tasks depending > on their order, combination and configuration. Analysis frameworks also > reduce the problem of reproducibility of NLP results by formalising > solution composition and making language processing tools shareable. > > Very recently, several efforts have been devoted to the development of web > service platforms for NLP. These platforms exploit the growing number of > web-based tools and services available for tasks related to HLT, including > corpus annotation, configuration and execution of NLP pipelines, and > evaluation of results and automatic parameter tuning. These platforms can > also integrate modules and pipelines from existing frameworks such as UIMA > and GATE, in order to achieve interoperability with a wide variety of > modules from different sources. > > Many of the issues and challenges surrounding these developments have been > addressed individually in particular projects and workshops, but there are > ramifications that cut across all of them. We therefore feel that this is > the moment to bring together participants representing the range of > interests that comprise the comprehensive picture for community-driven, > distributed, collaborative, web-based development and use for language > processing software and resources. This includes those engaged in > development of infrastructures for HLT as well as those who will use these > services and infrastructures, especially for multi-site collaborative work. > > > ### Workshop Objectives > > The overall goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for discussion of > the requirements for an envisaged open “global laboratory” for HLT research > and development and establish the basis of a community effort to develop > and support it. To this end, the workshop will include both presentations > addressing the issues and challenges of developi
