The LREC 2010 workshop New Challenges for NLP Frameworks will provide a venue for reporting ongoing work in the context of NLP frameworks, such as UIMA, GATE, and other related systems. It will take place in Valletta, Malta, on May 22, 2010. Paper deadline is February 12, 2010.
We invite you to submit your work on active learning for natural language processing and other real-world applications to the NAACL-HLT workshop on Active Learning for NLP (ALNLP). The workshop will be held in Los Angeles in June 2010. Deadline: March 1, 2010.
German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding the new Jena Centre of Systems Biology of Ageing (JenAge). Coorporating institutions are the Leibniz Institute for Age Research - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI), the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knöll Institute (HKI), the Friedrich Schiller University (FSU) - JULIE Lab, and the University Clinic Jena (UKJ). More details available here.
The 2nd UIMA at GSCL workshop will take place on October, 1st in Potsdam in conjunctions with the GSCL conference. More details available here .
The Fifth International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2009), Best Paper Award for peer-reviewed paper by Katrin Tomanek and Udo Hahn. Reducing Class Imbalance During Active Learning for Named Entity Annotation.
Currently, we have several open positions. More details available here.
Dr. Joachim Wermter was awarded a price for his outstanding promotion by the Freundesgesellschaft der Universität Jena. (The university's press report in german).
We ranked 2nd in the primary task of the BioNLP'09 Shared Task on Event Extraction. See here for the press release (in German).
LuCAS, UIMA Lucene CAS Indexer, is now available through the UIMA sandbox.
See here for details.