You Can Help -- we are so close to getting UIMA approved as a standard.

[David Ferrucci <ferrucci@us.ibm.com>]

Hi,

This is our first time and we have 35
of the 44 required votes and 3 days to go. Not bad but not there yet.

Many may vote at the last minute. But
you can help now to improve our chances.

Please take a look at the link below
and scan all the organizational members.

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/voting/ballot.php?id=1654

Reach out to any organizational representative
 whom you know personally or  to a colleague in one of the member
organizations that you believe should be interested in UIMA as a standard.

Encourage them to  vote yes for
UIMA by Feb 28th. 

If you are reaching out to a colleague
who is NOT the OASIS rep on the above list,  then ask them to contact
their OASIS representative and encourage them to vote. In this case give
them the name of the OASIS representative.

If you are reaching out to the OASIS
representative directly, you can use the email link near the rep's name
on the list. 

At this point every vote counts, so
if you have any contacts at these company's please reach out to them.

You can use this blurb to give them
a sense about what UIMA is all about.

UIMA stands for the Unstructured
Information Management Architecture. The proposed specification defines
a standard for data representations, data transport formats, component
classes and service interfaces to support the interoperability and integration
of text and multi-modal analytics. UIMA is critical for an increasing number
of applications designed to analyze content in text, speech, audio or video
to extract application-specific semantics. These applications are becoming
essential to every day scientific, business and social computing. They
invariably use, reuse and combine independently developed component analytics.
UIMA makes it possible to integrate these based on a standard and to use
the popular open-source Java (and C++) UIMA framework (http://incubator.apache.org/uima/)
to implement and deploy integrated solutions for a wide variety of application
domains including: legal, business and government intelligence, human resources,
bioinformatics, advanced search and content analysis, the semantic web
and many others.


Thanks!!

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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  
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"Mary McRae" <mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org>
Sent by: Mary McRae <marypmcrae@gmail.com>

02/25/2009 11:47 PM

Please respond to
<mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org>

To	<uima@lists.oasis-open.org>
cc
Subject	[uima] current ballot status

Hi everyone,
 
  I just wanted to make sure you are
all aware that the ballot is still 9 votes shy as of 11:45pm ET on Wednesday
25 February. You need 44 to pass. I’m not sure if you’ve been campaigning
behind the scenes but wanted to make sure you were aware of the status.
A reminder notice was sent to all voters on Tuesday morning.
 
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/voting/ballot.php?id=1654
 
Regards,
 
Mary
 
___________________________________________________________
Mary P McRae
Director, Technical Committee Administration
OASIS: Advancing open standards for the
information society
email: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org
 
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phone: 1.603.232.9090