NLP Interchange Format (NIF) - Attribution and Contact

Attribution

We are currently updating the list of maintainers and contributors. This process takes quite a while, since many people are involved. Please check back frequently to get updates. Currently over 30 software artifacts exist, that use or implement NIF. We are trying to keep track and collect everything in structured form in a script at GitHub for generating the remainder of the page.

Publications

Please add your own publications by uploading your references to bibsonomy and the tag it as nlp2rdf_pub
The latest publication regarding NIF is this one:
Integrating NLP using Linked Data. Sebastian Hellmann, Jens Lehmann, Sören Auer, and Martin Brümmer. Submitted to 12th International Semantic Web Conference, 21-25 October 2013, Sydney, Australia, (2013)

Origins and Contact

NIF was originally created by a small team from AKSW at University of Leipzig during the LOD2 EU Project, which is still ongoing until 2014. If you have any questions please contact the mailing list (see above) or write an email to Sebastian Hellmann. Please also email Sebastian, if you wish to be added as a maintainer/supporter below.

Maintainers and supporters

Below we are listing the projects and institutions that support NIF and are part of the NLP2RDF project.


	LIDER EU Project

Tools and Projects using or implementing NIF

Software (open source and industrial)

Complete attribution is important for us. If your tool is missing on the list, please email Sebastian Hellmann or send a pull request here. Most of the tools are being updated to NIF 2.0, currently. Some only implemented NIF within the soon-to-be ITS 2.0 W3C Recommendation.

(work in progress) DBpedia Spotlight
(work in progress) THD
(work in progress) OpenNLP
(work in progress) NERD
(work in progress) FOX, webservice/demo
(work in progress) RDFaCE, webservice/demo
(work in progress) Apache Stanbol, webservice/demo
(work in progress) COAT
(work in progress) Korean NLP2RDF, webservice/demo

Third-Party wrappers and converters

Almost everything included in the developers study. Will be migrated here soon.

Stanford Core NLP
ITS 2 NIF converter (XSLT) by Felix Sasaki
Wikipedia 2 NIF converter (XSLT) by Felix Sasaki

Clients

Tools that parse and use NIF.

Virtuoso Sponger

Developers

Below is a list of developers who have actively contributed to NIF in terms of code or documentation. Complete attribution is important for us. If your name is missing on the list, please email Sebastian Hellmann or send a pull request here

ITS 2.0

Dave Lewis,Felix Sasaki,Dominic Jones,Felix Sasaki Tadej Štajner created the ITS RDF ontology
Leroy Finn provided an ITS2NIF implementation
Phil Ritchie from VistaTEC provided an ITS2NIF implementation.
Felix Sasaki provided an ITS2NIF implementation

Christian Chiarcos who maintains OLiA.
Key-Sun Choi, YoungGyun Hahm, KyungTae Lim who maintain the Korean NLP2RDF
Rupert Westenthaler who developed the NIF wrapper for Apache Stanbol, webservice/demo
Giuseppe Rizzo and Raphaël Troncy who maintain the NERD project.
Sebastian Lippert wrote his Bachelor's thesis about integrating NIF output in COAT.
Mateja Verlic implements the wrapper for Zemanta. The code is available here: https://github.com/sparkica/zem-api-wrapper
Mladen Stanojević and Uroš Milošević are implementing a NIF wrapper in DS2.
Tomas Kliegr and Milan Dojchinovski using it in THD and the LinkedTV EU Project.
Artjom Klein
Artjom Klein
Mohamed Sherif used NIF for his Semantic Quran conversion
Martin Brümmer created the Wikilink Corpus conversion and is currently writing his Master Thesis about the OpenNLP NIF integration.
Markus Ackermann, Martin Brümmer, Didier Cherix, Marcus Nitzschke, Alexander Lust, Robert Schulze implemented wrappers for NIF 1.0 during an internship at University Leipzig in 2009.

TODO, below is an old list, that needs to be cleaned and merged

Markus Ackermann created the Topic Ontology for Mallet
Sören Auer, LOD2
Christian Chiarcos maintains the Ontologies of Linguistic Annotation
Philipp Cimiano maintains lemon
Key-Sun Choi, LOD2
Sebastian Hellmann coordinates the project and implementation efforts
Konrad Höffner contributed a Tutorial Challenge: Semantic Yellow Pages
Ali Khalili contributed a use case and maintains RDFaCE
Artjom Klein implemented NIF wrappers for the bio domain
Maxime Lefrançois helps to develop the ITS2NIF2ITS brigde to ITS 2.0
Jens Lehmann, LOD2
Pablo Mendes maintains DBpedia Spotlight
John McCrae maintains lemon
Axel Ngonga maintains FOX (demo)
Martín Rezk
Giuseppe Rizzo maintains the NERD Ontology
Felix Sasaki helps to develop the ITS2NIF2ITS brigde to ITS 2.0
Tadej Stajner maintains Enrycher and helps to develop the ITS2NIF2ITS brigde to ITS 2.0
Raphael Troncy maintains the NERD Ontology
Mateja Verlic, Zemanta
Thanh Nghia Lam maintains the WiktionaryFirstSense
Markus Ackermann for Mallet
Martin Brümmer for OpenNLP and for UIMA
Didier Cherix for Gate Annie
Marcus Nitzschke for MontyLingua (Python)
Robert Schulze for DBpedia Spotlight (node-js)