Update History of U-Compare
2009 Oct 23. Forum posting not available (Forum)
Due to very many spam posts, we have disabled new posts in the forum. We will consider workarounds later.
2009 Oct 9. released a new launcher, UCLoader Launcher (Launch U-Compare)
UCLoader Launcher is an executable Jar file, which allows users to launch U-Compare in an easy mannar but runs faster as same as UCLoader.
This is due to the previous Java Web Start launcher was very slow when the network connection is narrow.
2009 Jul 31. Version 1.1.3.
New Comonents: NaCTeM Species Word Detector, morpha, extractabbrev, NaCTeM Species Disambiguator.from
Nactem.
ABNER with User Model, NLPBA reader, BioCreative1a reader, BIO (IOB) reader/writer,
wrapped by U-Compare.
Annotation Viewer shows comparison groups precisely.. Other debugs.
2009 Jul 31. Documentation Updated.
Updated almost all of the pages in this site, except for the Developer Guide (to be updated)..
2009 May 27. Version 1.1.2
Updated to version 1.1.2. FIX: Language Capability option in Input Text Reader was not working.
2009 May 21. Version 1.1.1
Updated to version 1.1.1. CHANGE: Input Text Reader has Language Capability option. FIX: fixed text encoding bug. FIX: problem using external type system.
2009 May 16. Video Tutorial
A video tutorial available for the first time U-Compare users.
2009 May 13. UCLoader, Website (Launch U-Compare/Link)
Provides new launcher system, UCLoader, faster and in a command line way. See Launch U-Compare page for details. Link page has also updated.
2009 May 4. Publication
Kano, Yoshinobu, William A. Baumgartner Jr., Luke McCrohon, Sophia Ananiadou, K. Bretonnel Cohen, Lawrence Hunter and Jun'ichi Tsujii U-Compare: share and compare text mining tools with UIMA. Bioinformatics 2009 (in press); doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp289 abstract (journal website) pdf bib enl
See Publications page for details.
2010 Mar 03. Version 1.1.4
The U-Compare type system updated, now released under the Apache license. Include bugfixes in several components.
2009 Oct 23. Updated UCLoader Launcher (Launch U-Compare)
Bugfix: UCLoader Launcher could not start U-Compare when the ucloader.jar file is saved to a path which contains whitespaces. This occurs often when you use Windows and run the jar file directly from the browser, which saves the file to your temporary folder under Documents and Settings.
2009 Apr 30, system
U-Compare released a major update, Version 1.1.0, includes many new features, new components, bugfixes.
- U-Compare now uses directory [user.home]/.U-Compare, instead of [user.home]/U-Compare. Automatically renames the old directory when the new directory does not exist.
- Results of U-Compare parallel workflows are not compatible with the previous versions due to the new evaluation pluggable system, loading such old results will fail. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Forum location has been moved, please check if you linked to the forum articles directly.
2009 Mar 19, UIMA
OASIS approved the first open specification of the UIMA standard. The members of U-Compare (the University of Tokyo and the University of Manchester/Nactem) are members of the OASIS UIMA Technical Committee, created the standard together with other members.
2009 Feb 4, Java
Sun released Java 6 update 12, supporting Java Web Start in 64bit systems.
2009 Jan 26, system
Version 1.0.5, enhancement in the BioNLP shared task reader, other bugfixes.
2009 Jan 7, system
Version 1.0.4, enhancement and bugfixes of Annotation Viewer.
2008 Dec 22, system/website
U-Compare is officially supporting the BioNLP 09 shared task on event detections, held in NAACL 09 at Boulder, Colorado. In version 1.0.3 below, Shared Task format reader and a workflow for visualization is provided. Along with the later data/evaluation scheme releases from the shared task, we will provide more functions. See the BioNLP 09 page for details, also linked from the menu list on the left.
2008 Dec 22, system/website
Version 1.0.3, added Enju 2.3.1, Akane PPI Detector, StanfordParser and SecondString based dictionary pluggable NER. Annotation Viewer is now showing any links between annotations graphically as arcs. See our forum for details.
2008 Nov 27, system/website
Version 1.0.2, added Nactem Sentence Breaker, Import/Export function bugfix, providing LingPipe importable package again, Annotation Viewer performance improvement, etc. See our forum for details.
2008 Nov 17, system/website
Version 1.0.1, see our forum for details. Also updated developer guide.
2008 Nov 14, system/website
First public release.
2008 Nov 11, system/website
Public beta version for testing purpose.
2008 Oct 17, website
Renewed entire website.
