UKP Home

The "Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing" group in the department of computer science at Technische Universität Darmstadt is one of the recipients of this year's IBM UIMA Innovation Award. Since 2006, each year a small number of the renowned awards is presented internationally to researchers in order to promote the development and distribution of the UIMA software framework. UIMA is an open-source framework for the development and integration of natural language processing (NLP) components.

The research group of Dr. Iryna Gurevych and Prof. Max Mühlhäuser has been using UIMA for the development of the "Darmstadt Knowledge Processing Repository" (DKPro) right from the moment when the group was established (2006). The DKPro repository is a freely available suite of integrated software components for diverse natural language processing tasks. The distinguished proposal of Gurevych's and Mühlhäuser's group describes essential improvements and extensions to DKPro, which aim to make the component suite meet the requirements of current and emerging trends in NLP, like e.g. use of web-based contents from blogs or wikis. The DKPro repository will be made available to the research community. The IBM UIMA Innovation Award is endowed with $ 24.000.