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

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 <> 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 
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



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http://www.ibm.com/research/uima  

-- 
Yoshinobu Kano


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