Concept Mapper Codebase Intellectual Property (IP) Clearance Status

Description

ConceptMapper is a powerful, highly configurable dictionary UIMA-based annotator. Numerous parameters can be used to specify various aspects of the lookup algorithm, input processing and output options. The dictionary structure is flexible, allowing any number synonyms to be associated with an entry, and any number of attributes to be associated with entries or synonyms. Additionally, ConceptMapper can be used with any tokenizer, enabling tokenization of the dictionary identically with the input text.

The contributed code is in the "sandbox" area of the UIMA SVN: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/uima/sandbox/trunk/ConceptMapper/ . The original donation is in a zip file attached to a JIRA issue: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1033 .

The donation codebase is a set of new modules and documentation and does not contain patches for other components.

Project info

PMC responsible for the code: Apache UIMA (currently an Incubator project, so officially, the Incubator PMC)

This donation is being initially imported into the Apache UIMA project in the "sandbox" under the top level directory "uima-as".

Officer or member managing donation: Ken Coar

Completed tasks are shown by the completion date (YYYY-MM-dd).

Identify the codebase

date	item
2008-08-26	If applicable, make sure that any associated name does not already exist and is not already trademarked for an existing software product.

The MD5 sum for the donated software: MD5(conceptMapper.zip)= 518fdaa42663051c52b03de0b65564eb

Copyright

date	item
2008-06-04	Check and make sure that the papers that transfer rights to the ASF been received. It is only necessary to transfer rights for the package, the core code, and any new code produced by the project.
....-..-..	Check and make sure that the files that have been donated have been updated to reflect the new ASF copyright.

Identify name recorded for software grant: the name of the grant as record in the grants.txt document so that the grant can be easily identified

Verify distribution rights

Corporations and individuals holding existing distribution rights:

IBM Corporation

date	item
2008-08-26	Check that all active committers have a signed CLA on record.
2008-08-26	Remind active committers that they are responsible for ensuring that a Corporate CLA is recorded if such is required to authorize their contributions under their individual CLA.
2008-10-29	Check and make sure that for all items included with the distribution that is not under the Apache license, we have the right to combine with Apache-licensed code and redistribute.
2008-10-29	Check and make sure that all items depended upon by the project is covered by one or more of the following approved licenses: Apache, BSD, Artistic, MIT/X, MIT/W3C, MPL 1.1, or something with essentially the same terms.

Generally, the result of checking off these items will be a Software Grant, CLA, and Corporate CLA for ASF licensed code, which must have no dependencies upon items whose licenses that are incompatible with the Apache License.

Organizational acceptance of responsibility for the project

Related VOTEs:

accepted by vote on uima-dev list: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-uima-dev/200805.mbox/%3c483C2D7C.5070804@schor.com%3e