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| <title>Apache UIMA Addon: Concept Mapper: Release Notes</title> | |
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| <h1>Apache UIMA (Unstructured Information Management Architecture) Addon Concept Mapper v2.10.2 Release Notes</h1> | |
| <h2>Contents</h2> | |
| <p> | |
| <a href="#what.is.uima">What is UIMA?</a><br/> | |
| <a href="#what.is.concept.mapper">What is the Concept Mapper</a><br> | |
| <a href="#major.changes">Major Changes in this Release</a><br/> | |
| <a href="#get.involved">How to Get Involved</a><br/> | |
| <a href="#report.issues">How to Report Issues</a><br/> | |
| <a href="#list.issues">List of JIRA Issues Fixed in this Release</a><br/> | |
| </p> | |
| <h2><a id="what.is.uima">1. What is UIMA?</a></h2> | |
| <p> | |
| Unstructured Information Management applications are | |
| software systems that analyze large volumes of | |
| unstructured information in order to discover knowledge | |
| that is relevant to an end user. UIMA is a framework and | |
| SDK for developing such applications. An example UIM | |
| application might ingest plain text and identify | |
| entities, such as persons, places, organizations; or | |
| relations, such as works-for or located-at. UIMA enables | |
| such an application to be decomposed into components, | |
| for example "language identification" -> "language | |
| specific segmentation" -> "sentence boundary | |
| detection" -> "entity detection (person/place names | |
| etc.)". Each component must implement interfaces defined | |
| by the framework and must provide self-describing | |
| metadata via XML descriptor files. The framework manages | |
| these components and the data flow between them. | |
| Components are written in Java or C++; the data that | |
| flows between components is designed for efficient | |
| mapping between these languages. UIMA additionally | |
| provides capabilities to wrap components as network | |
| services, and can scale to very large volumes by | |
| replicating processing pipelines over a cluster of | |
| networked nodes. | |
| </p> | |
| <p> | |
| Apache UIMA is an Apache-licensed open source | |
| implementation of the UIMA specification (that | |
| specification is, in turn, being developed concurrently | |
| by a technical committee within | |
| <a href="http://www.oasis-open.org">OASIS</a>, | |
| a standards organization). We invite and encourage you | |
| to participate in both the implementation and | |
| specification efforts. | |
| </p> | |
| <p> | |
| UIMA is a component framework for analysing unstructured | |
| content such as text, audio and video. It comprises an | |
| SDK and tooling for composing and running analytic | |
| components written in Java and C++, with some support | |
| for Perl, Python and TCL. | |
| </p> | |
| <h2><a id="what.is.uima">2. What is the Concept Mapper?</a></h2> | |
| <p>ConceptMapper is a highly configurable, | |
| high performance dictionary lookup tool, | |
| implemented as a UIMA component. | |
| <p> | |
| Using one of several matching algorithms, | |
| it maps entries in a dictionary onto input documents, producing UIMA annotations. | |
| <p> The reference manual is | |
| <a target="_blank" href="https://uima.apache.org/d/uima-addons-current/ConceptMapper/ConceptMapperAnnotatorUserGuide.html">here</a>. | |
| <h2><a id="major.changes">Major Changes in this Release</a></h2> | |
| <p>This release updates the Concept Mapper to use the current UIMA annotator APIs. | |
| It also adds the improvements: | |
| <ul> | |
| <li>configures buffered I/O for compiled dictionaries</li> | |
| <li>adds the ability to specify the tokenizer descriptor by using a reference to a descriptor in the classpath</li> | |
| <li>supports creating the compiled dictionary as a side effect of loading a non-compiled dictionary</li> | |
| </ul> | |
| Finally, an API Change report is included, documenting the changes in the APIs between this version and | |
| version 2.3.1. Most users will be unaffected by this, because they do not use the APIs, but rather | |
| configure and run the ConceptMapper as a UIMA Annotator. | |
| </p> | |
| <p>Changes were also made to build specification to allow this project to be separately released. | |
| The binary build was changed to use the normal Maven conventions for naming the JAR artifact.</p> | |
| <h2><a id="get.involved">How to Get Involved</a></h2> | |
| <p> | |
| The Apache UIMA project really needs and appreciates any contributions, | |
| including documentation help, source code and feedback. If you are interested | |
| in contributing, please visit | |
| <a href="http://uima.apache.org/get-involved.html"> | |
| http://uima.apache.org/get-involved.html</a>. | |
| </p> | |
| <h2><a id="report.issues">How to Report Issues</a></h2> | |
| <p> | |
| The Apache UIMA project uses JIRA for issue tracking. Please report any | |
| issues you find at | |
| <a href="http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/uima">http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/uima</a> | |
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