UIMA ( ), short for Unstructured Information Management Architecture, is an
OASIS standard for
content analytics, originally developed at
IBM
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. It provides a
component software architecture for the development, discovery, composition, and deployment of
multi-modal analytics for the analysis of
unstructured information
Unstructured data (or unstructured information) is information that either does not have a pre-defined data model or is not organized in a pre-defined manner. Unstructured information is typically text-heavy, but may contain data such as dates, nu ...
and integration with
search technologies
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.
Structure
The UIMA architecture can be thought of in four dimensions:
# It specifies component interfaces in an analytics
pipeline
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.
# It describes a set of
design patterns
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.
# It suggests two data representations: an in-memory representation of annotations for high-performance analytics and an
XML
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing data. It defines a set of rules for encoding electronic document, documents in a format that is both human-readable and Machine-r ...
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, a
reference implementation
In the software development process, a reference implementation (or, less frequently, sample implementation or model implementation) is a program that implements all requirements from a corresponding specification. The reference implementation ...
of UIMA, is maintained by the
Apache Software Foundation
The Apache Software Foundation ( ; ASF) is an American nonprofit corporation (classified as a 501(c)(3) organization in the United States) to support a number of open-source software projects. The ASF was formed from a group of developers of the ...
.
UIMA is used in a number of software projects:
*
IBM Research
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's
Watson
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uses UIMA for analyzing
unstructured data
Unstructured data (or unstructured information) is information that either does not have a pre-defined data model or is not organized in a pre-defined manner. Unstructured information is typically plain text, text-heavy, but may contain data such ...
.
* 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
Named-entity recognition (NER) (also known as (named) entity identification, entity chunking, and entity extraction) is a subtask of information extraction that seeks to locate and classify named entities mentioned in unstructured text into pr ...
*
General Architecture for Text Engineering
General Architecture for Text Engineering (GATE) is a Java suite of natural language processing (NLP) tools for man tasks, including information extraction in many languages. It is now used worldwide by a wide community of scientists, companies, t ...
(GATE)
*
IBM Omnifind
IBM OmniFind was an enterprise search platform from IBM. It did come in several packages adapted to different business needs, including OmniFind Enterprise Edition, OmniFind Enterprise Starter Edition, and OmniFind Discovery Edition. IBM OmniFind a ...
*
LanguageWare LanguageWare is a natural language processing (NLP) technology developed by IBM, which allows applications to process natural language text. It comprises a set of Java libraries that provide a range of NLP functions: language identification, text ...
References
External links
Apache UIMA home page
{{Apache Software Foundation
Apache Software Foundation projects
Software architecture
Data mining and machine learning software