Re: Need your input to submit the Final UIMA Specification to OASIS

["Yoshinobu Kano" <kano@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp>]

Dear UIMA TC members,

I wrote our "Statement of Use" as below.
Please include this description as the statement of the University of Tokyo.

Thanks,

-Yoshinobu

The
University of Tokyo is using the UIMA CAS and UIMA Type System
specifications and XML schemas in accordance with the conformance
clauses specified in the Unstructured Information Management
Architecture 1.0 specification. Our use is based on the Apache UIMA
implementation. We have developed an integrated platform based on UIMA
to increase the usability for both users and developers including a
special parallel flow mechanism for comparisons and several GUIs,
started a joint project U-Compare (http://u-compare.org)
together with the University of Colorado Health Science Center and the
National Centre for Text Mining at the University of Manchester to
provide the world largest ready-to-use type system compatible component
repository.

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 5:27 AM, David Ferrucci <ferrucci@us.ibm.com> wrote:

Hi,

The UIMA TC has worked hard to develop a platform-intependent specification of text and multi-modal analytics.

The use of the UIMA Java and C++ Frameworks has grown dramatically world-wide over the last couple of years and we are very excited about formalizing this specification, as we think it will help guide future implementations and help ensure interoperability.

You represent "organizational members" of OASIS,  are users  of UIMA and have helped develop  the UIMA specification at OASIS.

We need just a small bit of your help to  submit the specification into the final stages of OASIS approval process.

To take the next step we need you to email us a "Statement of Use".  This is easy to do.

A "Statement of Use" is  essentially a one-liner that acknowledges compliance to some element of the specification. As a user of the UIMA framework you have complied to various part of the spec.  (There are examples below)

Please send yours to uima@lists.oasis-open.org as soon as you can.  We need them by Friday next week at  the latest.

Thanks for your help!!!!


Here's general example "Statement of Use"
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<Your Organization Name> is successfully using the UIMA CAS XML and UIMA Type System XML specifications and schemas in accordance with the conformance clauses specified in the Unstructured Information Management Architecture 1.0 specification.  Our use is based on the Apache UIMA open source implementation and includes the interoperation of multiple independent component implementations.

Here are some specific ones:
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The University of Colorado Denver is using the UIMA CAS and UIMA Type System specifications and XML schemas in accordance with the conformance clauses specified in the Unstructured Information Management Architecture 1.0 specification. Our use is based on the Apache UIMA open source implementation. We have integrated components developed on-site with those from the Jena University Language & Information Engineering (JULIE) Lab and the Tsujii Lab U-compare site (http://u-compare.org).

Temis is successfully using the UIMA CAS XML and UIMA Type System XML specifications and schemas in accordance with the conformance clauses specified in the Unstructured Information Management Architecture 1.0 specification.  
Temis main product, Luxid®, is build from the ground using the UIMA Apache implementation , enhances any existing UIMA-compliant applications and easily integrates and manages any third-party UIMA-compliant annotators.


-Dave
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David A. Ferrucci, PhD
Senior Manager, Semantic Analysis & Integration
Chief Architect,  UIMA
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, NY 10532
Tel: 914-784-7847, 8/863-7847
ferrucci@us.ibm.com
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http://www.ibm.com/research/uima  

-- 
Yoshinobu Kano
kano@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Project Research Associate, the University of Tokyo
http://www-tsujii.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/