Short introductionary slides introducing some of the work done on the Scribo project to extract Named Entities in textual documents with a UIMA engine.

1. Olivier Grisel - 2009-11-13 - IKS
Semantic Lifting
Named Entities Extraction with UIMA
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2. Nuxeo
• Open Source ECM
• Nuxeo DM 5.3 available
• office document management with workspaces
• download it at http://nuxeo.com
• Soon: Nuxeo DAM
• Multimedia content
• Full ajax search based browsing
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3. http://SCRIBO.ws
• Goal: content to knowledge using ontologies
• 3 academic research teams
• 2 NLP startups
• 2 Open Source ECM / Wiki software editors
• 2 use case providers:
• News agency
• Linux distribution
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4. UIMA
• Chain components to extract annotations on text
and images
• Initially developed by IBM
• Now an Apache Software Foundation project
• Several existing components (OpenNLP, ClearTK, ...)
• Easy to wrap new libraries as UIMA annotators
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5. Scribo UIMA chain
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6. Scribo UIMA chain editor
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7. Embedded UIMA chain
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8. It’s Open Source
• Clone it!
• http://hg.nuxeo.org/sandbox/scribo
• http://hg.nuxeo.org/sandbox/nuxeo-uima
• Give me feedback!
• http://twitter.com/ogrisel
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