UIMA ( yoo-EE-mə),[1] short for Unstructured Information Management Architecture, is an OASIS standard[2] for content analytics, originally developed at IBM. It provides a component software architecture for the development, discovery, composition, and deployment of multi-modal analytics for the analysis of unstructured information and integration with search technologies.
Structure
The UIMA architecture can be thought of in four dimensions:
- It specifies component interfaces in an analytics pipeline.
- It describes a set of design patterns.
- It suggests two data representations: an in-memory representation of annotations for high-performance analytics and an XML representation of annotations for integration with remote web services.
- It suggests development roles allowing tools to be used by users with diverse skills.
Implementations and uses
Apache UIMA |
| Developer(s) | IBM, Apache Software Foundation (since October 2006) |
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| Stable release | 3.1.1
/ November 8, 2019; 4 years ago (2019-11-08)[3] |
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| Written in | Java with C++ enablement |
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| Operating system | cross-platform |
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| Type | text mining, information extraction |
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| License | Apache License 2.0 |
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| Website | uima.apache.org |
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Apache UIMA, a reference implementation of UIMA, is maintained by the Apache Software Foundation.
UIMA is used in a number of software projects:
- IBM Research's Watson uses UIMA for analyzing unstructured data.[4]
- The Clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System (Apache cTAKES) is a UIMA-based system for information extraction from medical records.
- DKPro Core is a collection of reusable UIMA components for general-purpose natural language processing.
See also
- Data Discovery and Query Builder
- Entity extraction
- General Architecture for Text Engineering (GATE)
- IBM Omnifind
- LanguageWare
References
- ↑ UIMA Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's) The Apache Software Foundation
- ↑ UIMA Specification The Apache Software Foundation.
- ↑ "Apache UIMA - News". http://uima.apache.org/news.html#08 Nov 2019.
- ↑ "Apache Innovation Bolsters IBM's "Smartest Machine on Earth" in First-ever Man vs. Machine Competition on Jeopardy! Quiz Show : The Apache Software Foundation Blog". https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/apache_innovation_bolsters_ibm_s.
External links
Apache Software Foundation |
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| Commons |
- BCEL
- BSF
- Daemon
- Jelly
- Logging
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| Other projects |
- Batik
- Chainsaw
- FOP
- Ivy
- Log4j
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| Attic |
- Abdera
- AxKit
- Beehive
- Bluesky
- iBATIS
- Cactus
- Click
- Continuum
- Deltacloud
- Etch
- Excalibur
- Harmony
- HiveMind
- Jakarta
- Lenya
- Shale
- Shindig
- Slide
- stdcxx
- Tuscany
- Wave
- Wink
- XMLBeans
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