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Unified Corpus Explorer

The Unified Corpus Explorer (UCE) is a generic NLP application developed by the Text Technology Lab that allows the automatic creation of a fully featured portal for your annotated corpora. UCE is standardized in the sense that it's dockerized, reusable, and follows strict schemata—one of which is the UIMA format. To import data and set up your own UCE instance, it is required that the data is annotated or at least exists in UIMA format.

This documentation includes step-by-step tutorials for developers as well as users, and shows easy-to-follow instructions. The easiest scenario—one where the data already exists in UIMA format and simply needs to be set up and imported into the UCE instance—can be done with Docker knowledge only.

Below you find some running instances of different projects using UCE for their corpora

Running UCE Instances

UCE is used by different projects to visualize their corpora and to provide a generic, but flexible webportal for their users. Here we list some of those UCE instances.

Url Project Description
URL BIOfid The Specialised Information Service Biodiversity Research (BIOfid) provides access to current and historical biodiversity literature.
URL PrismAI A dataset for the systematic detection of AI-generated text, containg both English and German texts from 8 domains, synthesized using state-of-the-art LLMs.

Questions and issues related to development can be raised in the official GitHub repository. For other inquiries or to get in touch—such as regarding projects or integrations — please use the official lab's contact page.