Title: Engineered to interoperate - Natural Language Processing with UIMA and DKPro Core

Abstract: Vast amounts of information are stored in unstructured formats such
as audio, video, or plain text. The field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) addresses
this by providing not only methods but also many ready made tools to analyze
text and to structure it in many ways ranginge from simple segmentation to complex
semantic analysis. However, most of these tools are not directly compatible with
each other as each one has their specific APIs and data formats. This talk will
give a brief introduction to NLP tasks, open source NLP tools, and elaborate how
the DKPro Core component collection employs Apache UIMA to enable tool interoperability.

About the speaker: Dr. Richard Eckart de Castilho is a senior research and technical lead at the
Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab, TU Darmstadt, the lead developer of DKPro Core,
member of the Apache UIMA project, and maintainer of the Apache uimaFIT library [1].

[1] https://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/people/senior-staff/richard-eckart-de-castilho/