UFRA: a UIMA-based Approach to Federated Language Resource Architecture

In this paper we address the issue of developing an interoperable infrastructure for language resources and technologies. In our approach, called UFRA, we extend the Federate Database Architecture System adding typical functionalities coming from UIMA. In this way, we capitalize the advantages of a federated architecture, such as autonomy, heterogeneity and distribution of components, monitored by a central authority responsible for checking both the integration of components and user rights on performing different tasks. We use the UIMA approach to manage and define one common front-end, enabling users and clients to query, retrieve and use language resources and technologies. The purpose of this paper is to show how UIMA leads from a FEDERATED DATABASE ARCHITECTURE to a FEDERATED RESOURCE ARCHITECTURE,adding to a registry of available components both static resources such as lexicons and corpora and dynamic ones such as tools and general purpose language technologies. At the end of ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: LREC
• Authors: Riccardo Del Gratta, Roberto Bartolini, Tommaso Caselli, Monica Monachini, Claudia Soria, Nicoletta Calzolari
• Keywords: Database Architecture, Education, Federate Database Architecture, Language Resources, LREC 2008