<font face="verdana,sans-serif">Somewhat related issue:<br>Since UIMA is seeing an increasing use within NLP community (both Information Extraction and others such as Question/Answering), I wonder why another standard as opposed to an interface between the UIMA type system and one of the many existing standards. In other words, is there some work on representing the information we extract in a way more computer-interpretable than RDBMS?<br>
<br clear="all"></font><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Sincerely,</span><br style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Siddhartha Jonnalagadda, </span>Ph.D.<br style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 10:39 AM, John F. Sowa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sowa@bestweb.net">sowa@bestweb.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div id=":2nt">Before making a firm commitment to any notation as a standard for NLP,<br>
I suggest that you poll computational linguists and ask them what they<br>
would prefer for their work. Among the questions you could ask is to<br>
look at those five serializations and check which one(s) they prefer.<br>
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Corpora List is a good place to start such a poll.</div></blockquote></div><br>