Re: [uima] so close to getting UIMA approved as a standard.

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

Yes. It is looking very good. I am very
pleased.

The one 'no' vote is a very strange
case especially given the comment that at this late stage of the game they
have not read the spec :(
Given this is an open-standard under
development for some time and had a 60 review period, the right action
would have been to abstain (not vote).
We believe that he ultimately meant
to abstain and we have a note out to him for clarification.

Formally, if there is some minimum 'no'
votes, we just have to convene to get a 2/3 vote our own TC's voting membership
to push ahead in consideration of the negative votes. With the results
of that internal ballot,  OASIS will approve the standard with no
further ado.

We'll wait to the official end of the
ballot to take the next steps -- but looks very promising.

Regards,
        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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carl mattocks <carlmattocks@gmail.com>

02/28/2009 10:17 AM

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Subject	[uima] so close to getting UIMA approved as a standard.

We have 48 'yes' votes. We now need to consider if there
is a need to discuss the single 'no'  given the voters comment that
they are still seeking inhouse feedback.

:-}
congratulations

carl

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 9:12 AM, David Ferrucci <ferrucci@us.ibm.com>
wrote:

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>
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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 
  
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Mary P McRae 
Director, Technical Committee Administration 
OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society
email: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org
  
web: www.oasis-open.org
phone: 1.603.232.9090 
  



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