Apache UIMA

I started looking and working with UIMA on November 2008 for my graduation thesis in Computer Engineering at Universita' degli Studi Roma Tre. For some time I've been a user partecipating on the mailing list, then I started contributing on June 2009 and after some successfull contribution stories I've been offered the committership on August 2009.

My main contributions so far are on the sandbox/addons components and on the build/packaging side with Apache Maven. I've been at IKS (Interactive Knowledge Stack) 2nd Workshop on 13th November 2009 in Rome presenting (slides) a couple of demos on UIMA and Semantic Search (audioless screencast) .

On March 2010 me and Simone Tripodi made an IP Clearance for the AlchemyAPI Annotator that is now inside the Sandbox. AlchemyAPI Annotator is a set of Analysis Engines wrapping Alchemy API web services (just like OpenCalaisAnnotator wraps OpenaCalais webservices).

On May 2010 I have presented a topic called "Information Extraction on the Web" with three lessons held at my college (Roma Tre) during the "Information Management on the Web" course for the master degree in Computer Engineering. The slides can be found at: Data and Information Extraction on the Web, Apache UIMA and Metadata Generation, Information Extraction with UIMA - Use Cases.