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| Title | UFRA: a UIMA-based Approach to Federated Language Resource Architecture |
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| Authors | Riccardo Del Gratta, Roberto Bartolini, Tommaso Caselli, Monica Monachini, Claudia Soria and Nicoletta Calzolari |
| Abstract | 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 caming 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 the paper, we present a case-study that adopts this framework to integrate the SIMPLE lexicon and TIMEML annotation guidelines to tag natural language texts. |
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| Topics | LR Infrastructures and Architectures, LR web services, Lexicon, lexical database |
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| Bibtex | @InProceedings{DELGRATTA08.656, author = {Riccardo Del Gratta, Roberto Bartolini, Tommaso Caselli, Monica Monachini, Claudia Soria and Nicoletta Calzolari}, title = {UFRA: a UIMA-based Approach to Federated Language Resource Architecture}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)}, year = {2008}, month = {may}, date = {28-30}, address = {Marrakech, Morocco}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-4-0}, note = {http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/}, language = {english} } |