Project funded by THESEUS awarded innovation prize from IBM

Berlin, 7/16/2008: The Information Technology Department of Darmstadt Technical University has been awarded the “Unstructured Information Management Architecture Innovation Award” (UIMA). The prize, worth $24,000, is awarded by the computer manufacturer IBM to support the development of a freely accessible collection of programs for computer-based text analysis (open source programs). The prize went to a working group headed by Professor Iryna Gurevych and Professor Max Mühlhäuser. Supported by funds from the German Research Community and the THESEUS project, IT technicians from Darmstadt TU have been carrying out research into programs that automatically determine the content and meaning of texts and can thus arrange them thematically. The range of programs is to be provided free of charge worldwide for research purposes and the knowledge gained from unstructured texts will be used in ‘Web 2.0’. Many previously laborious steps in the development of natural language processing systems have been greatly simplified thanks to the ‘Darmstadt Knowledge Processing Repository’. This framework makes it much faster and easier to acquire new knowledge.

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