Richard, I, and few others had an interesting bar conversation... In the spirit of interoperability, What if we had a baseline common type system that could be reused across UIMA compatible NLP systems? Imagine for a moment that OpenNLP, ClearTK, ClearNLP, DKPro, cTAKES etc. if we could come up with a common baseline type system could be be reused? It may sound like a dream, but it could be doable-- if we could factor out and find the common ground? Perhaps we could start with the syntactical features... and then extend it for more specific domain use cases?
--Pei
