U-Compare: An Integrated Language Resource Evaluation Platform Including a Comprehensive UIMA Resource Library

Language resources, including corpus and tools, are normally required to be combined in order to achieve a user's specific task. However, resources tend to be developed independently in different, incompatible formats. In this paper we describe about U-Compare, which consists of the U-Compare component repository and the U-Compare platform. We have been building a highly interoperable resource library, providing the world largest ready-to-use UIMA component repository including wide variety of corpus readers and state-of-the-art language tools. These resources can be deployed as local services or web services, even possible to be hosted in clustered machines to increase the performance, while users do not need to be aware of such differences. In addition to the resource library, an integrated language processing platform is provided, allowing workflow creation, comparison, evaluation and visualization, using the resources in the library or any UIMA component, without any programm...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: LREC
• Authors: Yoshinobu Kano, Ruben Dorado, Luke McCrohon, Sophia Ananiadou, Jun-ichi Tsujii
• Keywords: Component Repository, Education, LREC 2010, Resource Library, UIMA Component