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UIMA is an Open, Industrial-Strength Platform for Unstructured Information Analysis and Search
UIMA
stands for the Unstructured Information Management Architecture.
It
is an open, industrial-strength, scaleable and extensible platform
for creating, integrating and deploying unstructured information
management solutions from combinations of semantic analysis and
search components.
Although UIMA originated at IBM, it has now moved on to be an Open Source project which is currently incubating at the Apache Software Foundation: http://incubator.apache.org/uima.
UIMA's goal is to provide a common foundation for
industry and academia to collaborate and accelerate the world-wide
development of technologies critical for discovering the vital
knowledge present in the fastest growing sources of
information today.
IBM
has empowered its products and services with UIMA creating a channel
for third-party vendors to deploy their text and multi-modal
analytics in larger integrated solutions.
The premier product platforms that exposes the UIMA interfaces to the customer are IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition and Analytics Edition. The former features UIMA for building full-text and semantic search indexes, and the latter deploys UIMA for information extraction and text analysis.
A general introduction to its use of UIMA with some sample applications can be found on here.
To
try out the UIMA software framework download Apache
UIMA from the Apache UIMA Site.
Building a Community
UIMA is now an Open Source project at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), where it is undergoing incubation, required of all new Apache projects. We are building an open, world-wide community of users and developers, and continuing UIMA's evolution using the Open Source developement paradigm.
In
addition to IBM, many universities and industrial organizations are using
UIMA to develop analysis engines and UIM solutions.
UIMA Innovation Awards
IBM has established an award program for University Faculty called the UIMA Innovation Awards, and given it for the past several years, to encourage building the community around UIMA. More information on this program can be found at
here.
UIMA is being Standardized at OASIS
UIMA is undergoing a standardization effort at OASIS, via the
OASIS Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) TC, working on standardizing semantic search and content analytics.
This committee, open to all interested parties who are members of OASIS, has been meeting regularly, and plans to publish a first draft of their work in early 2008.
Third Party Vendors and UIMA
A
host of third-party vendors have announced their use of UIMA to wrap
and deploy their analysis capabilities and to build UIMA-based
solutions. For details see the August 2005 OmniFind
Press Release. You can find more UIMA annotators on the internet using the internet search engines with the phrase "uima annotators". Carnegie Mellon University and Jena University both have repositories of UIMA components.
To
learn more about UIMA as a open platform for building unstructured
information and knowledge management applications read on.
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Last updated 17 Sep 2007
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