Putting the Semantics in the Semantic Web: An overview of UIMA and its role in Accelerating the Semantic Revolution -- by Dr. David Ferrucci (IBM Research) - 11-May-2006

* Subject Dr. David Ferrucci, a Sr. Manager from IBM's T.J.Watson Research Center and the Chief Architect for UIMA, presents his talk entitled: "Putting the Semantics in the Semantic Web: An overview of UIMA and its role in Accelerating the Semantic Revolution" * Date Thursday, May 11, 2006 * ONTOLOG Forum session page (with agenda and link to slides) http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_05_11 * Abstract (by David Ferrucci) The dream of the semantic web as well as the future of information and knowledge management applications will rely on the rapid and massive explication of intended meaning (i.e., semantics) in unstructured information sources (e.g, text documents, video, speech etc). This talk will discuss the importance of embracing and deploying automatic semantic discovery, in spite of less that perfect accuracy, to help enable the semantic web, as well as an emerging class of advanced search applications we refer to a Knowledge Gathering and Synthesis applications. It will introduce IBM's recent contribution of UIMA (http://www.ibm.com/research/uima ) to the open-source community and discuss how this work will help accelerate the production and application of automated semantic discovery.