Re: Proposal for a new incubation project: Unstructured Information Management Architecture - UIMA

2006-08-27 Thread Thilo Goetz
Yonik Seeley wrote: On 8/26/06, Thilo Goetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From an application perspective, we have great hopes for a cooperation with the Lucene project. Great, I think this is something I'd like to get involved in! I've been thinking about how Solr integration could work. You

Re: Proposal for a new incubation project: Unstructured Information Management Architecture - UIMA

2006-08-27 Thread Yonik Seeley
On 8/27/06, Thilo Goetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it would be a lot easier if one had special support for embedded structures in the index -- like you need for XML indexing. Lucene doesn't have embedded structures yet, but it's been discussed.

Re: Proposal for a new incubation project: Unstructured Information Management Architecture - UIMA

2006-08-26 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Thursday 24 August 2006 03:21, Marshall Schor wrote: Proposal for Incubation Project: Unstructured Information Management Architecture - UIMA From going from WTF is this to Hmmm... interesting after Leo's brilliant please clarify (resusable as well) mail. I think this is an area that has

Re: Proposal for a new incubation project: Unstructured Information Management Architecture - UIMA

2006-08-26 Thread Thilo Goetz
Ian Holsman wrote: Hi Thilo your explanation attracted me ;-) is UIMA just the interface specification only ? (ie to produce a standard in the unstructured text-processing world so that other people can plug and play) or does UIMA also provide tools for each component? Hi Ian, the main

Re: Proposal for a new incubation project: Unstructured Information Management Architecture - UIMA

2006-08-26 Thread Thilo Goetz
Hi David, we have some sample components today. For example, we have wrappers around some of the OpenNLP tools (http://opennlp.sourceforge.net/) to make them available as UIMA components. Also, as I mentioned in my an answer to Ian, we would like to create something like the Lucene sandbox

Re: Proposal for a new incubation project: Unstructured Information Management Architecture - UIMA

2006-08-26 Thread Leo Simons
On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 06:04:04PM +0200, Thilo Goetz wrote: snip/ I hope this gives you a better idea what UIMA is about. Yep, this and other explanations made it a lot clearer, thanks! UIMA sounds ambituous and interesting. cheers, Leo

Re: Proposal for a new incubation project: Unstructured Information Management Architecture - UIMA

2006-08-26 Thread Yonik Seeley
On 8/26/06, Thilo Goetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From an application perspective, we have great hopes for a cooperation with the Lucene project. Great, I think this is something I'd like to get involved in! I've been thinking about how Solr integration could work. You then also need a

Re: Proposal for a new incubation project: Unstructured Information Management Architecture - UIMA

2006-08-25 Thread Thilo Goetz
Leo Simons wrote: snip/ What does it *do*? How does it *work*? I understand there's a runtime and a framework and a standardization process and a component-based interoperability goal, but what I don't understand is what they are *for*. The unstructured content we're talking about is mainly

Re: Proposal for a new incubation project: Unstructured Information Management Architecture - UIMA

2006-08-25 Thread Marshall Schor
Hi Leo, Here's a response to your good questions; apologies to you and others (David Welton also commented) that we were not clearer, initially. snip I understand there's a runtime and a framework and a standardization process and a component-based interoperability goal, but what I don't

Re: Proposal for a new incubation project: Unstructured Information Management Architecture - UIMA

2006-08-25 Thread Brian McCallister
On Aug 25, 2006, at 4:07 AM, Leo Simons wrote: What does it *do*? I believe it is basically a big, pluggable, harness for analyzing and annotating streams of arbitrary data, if this is the same thing I talked with a bunch of folks about (including Martin, I believe) a couple years ago

Re: Proposal for a new incubation project: Unstructured Information Management Architecture - UIMA

2006-08-25 Thread Brian McCallister
On Aug 25, 2006, at 11:11 AM, Brian McCallister wrote: (including Martin, I believe) s/Martin/Marshall/g Doh! Sorry :-) -Brian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proposal for a new incubation project: Unstructured Information Management Architecture - UIMA

2006-08-25 Thread David Welton
What does it *do*? I believe it is basically a big, pluggable, harness Harness - will it be able to do something out of the box as a demonstration of its capabilities? -- David N. Welton - http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Linux, Open Source Consulting - http://www.dedasys.com/

Re: Proposal for a new incubation project: Unstructured Information Management Architecture - UIMA

2006-08-25 Thread Ian Holsman
Hi Thilo your explanation attracted me ;-) is UIMA just the interface specification only ? (ie to produce a standard in the unstructured text-processing world so that other people can plug and play) or does UIMA also provide tools for each component? I'm interested, and time permitting,

Re: Proposal for a new incubation project: Unstructured Information Management Architecture - UIMA - project descriptions

2006-08-24 Thread David Welton
The Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) is an architecture and software framework for creating, discovering, composing and deploying a broad range of multi-modal analysis capabilities. We propose a project to develop, implement, support and enhance UIMA framework

Proposal for a new incubation project: Unstructured Information Management Architecture - UIMA

2006-08-23 Thread Marshall Schor
Hello everyone - My colleagues and I are submitting this proposal to the community for a new project in the incubator, and look forward to starting to work with this community. Proposal for Incubation Project: Unstructured Information Management Architecture - UIMA The Unstructured