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| <h1>Apache UIMA Sandbox v2.3.0 Release Notes</h1> | |
| <h2>Contents</h2> | |
| <p> | |
| <a href="#what.is.uima">1. What is UIMA?</a><br/> | |
| <a href="#what.is.annot.package">2. What is the Apache UIMA annotator package?</a><br> | |
| <a href="#major.changes">3. Major Changes in this Release</a><br/> | |
| <a href="#get.involved">4. How to Get Involved</a><br/> | |
| <a href="#report.issues">5. How to Report Issues</a><br/> | |
| <a href="#list.issues">6. List of JIRA Issues Fixed in this Release</a> | |
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| <h2><a name="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 name="what.is.annot.package">2. What is the Apache UIMA annotator package?</a></h2> | |
| <p> | |
| The Apache UIMA annotator package is an add-on package for the base UIMA release. | |
| The add-on package contains annotator components developed for Apache UIMA. The | |
| add-on package fits the Apache UIMA directory structure and adds a directory | |
| called "addons/annotator" that contains the following annotator components: <br> | |
| - DictionaryAnnotator <br> | |
| - RegularExpressionAnnotator <br> | |
| - Tagger<br> | |
| - WhitespaceTokenizer<br> | |
| - DictionaryAnnotator<br> | |
| - RegularExpressionAnnotator<br> | |
| - Tagger<br> | |
| - WhitespaceTokenizer<br> | |
| - Bean Scripting Framework (BSF) BSFAnnotator<br> | |
| - ConceptMapper<br> | |
| - ConfigurableFeatureExtractor<br> | |
| - Lucas - an interface to using UIMA with Lucene<br> | |
| - OpenCalaisAnnotator - an sample annotator using the OpenCalais Service<br> | |
| - SnowballAnnotator - an annotator making use of the snowball stemmers<br> | |
| - TikaAnnotator - an annotator using the Tika project text extractors<br> | |
| </p><p> | |
| Additionally the package contains some components to package annotators | |
| and for accessing annotators as simple REST service. These are:<br> | |
| - PearPackagingAntTask<br> | |
| - SimpleServer | |
| </p><p> | |
| Finally, there is an addon to the base UIMA: | |
| - FsVariables | |
| </p><p> | |
| Each component has a separate LICENSE and NOTICE files; some also | |
| have Readme and other documentation (in docs/). Documentation | |
| is also available on the UIMA website, in the Sandbox area. | |
| </p> | |
| <h2><a name="major.changes">3. Major Changes in this Release</a></h2> | |
| <p> | |
| The Apache UIMA annotator package release version 2.3.0 adds the is the first release | |
| following components to the previously released ocmponents:<br> | |
| - Bean Scripting Framework (BSF) BSFAnnotator<br> | |
| - ConceptMapper<br> | |
| - ConfigurableFeatureExtractor<br> | |
| - Lucas - an interface to using UIMA with Lucene<br> | |
| - OpenCalaisAnnotator - an sample annotator using the OpenCalais Service<br> | |
| - SnowballAnnotator - an annotator making use of the snowball stemmers<br> | |
| - TikaAnnotator - an annotator using the Tika project text extractors<br> | |
| </p> | |
| <p> | |
| The PearPackagingMavenPlugin is moved to the base UIMA release package. | |
| </p><p> | |
| The XMLBean support is migrated to version 2.4.0, and all of the projects | |
| now use the maven xmlbeans plugin to generate the XML parsers. | |
| </p><p> | |
| Finally, there is an addon to the base UIMA:<br> | |
| - FsVariables | |
| </p> | |
| <p> | |
| For a list of all JIRA issues fixed with the current Sandbox release, | |
| please refer to chapter <a href="#list.issues">6. List of JIRA Issues Fixed in this Release</a>. | |
| </p> | |
| <h2><a name="get.involved">4. 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://incubator.apache.org/uima/get-involved.html"> | |
| http://incubator.apache.org/uima/get-involved.html</a>. | |
| </p> | |
| <h2><a name="report.issues">5. 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> | |
| </p> | |
| <h2><a name="list.issues">6. List of JIRA Issues Fixed in this Release</a></h2> | |
| Release Notes - UIMA - Version 2.3S | |
| <h2> Bug | |
| </h2> | |
| <ul> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-860'>UIMA-860</a>] - Add source-style LICENSE and NOTICE files at "root"s of UIMA | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-990'>UIMA-990</a>] - change POM description for annotator package POMs | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1003'>UIMA-1003</a>] - update PearPackagingMavenPlugin dependency scope | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1004'>UIMA-1004</a>] - update SimpleServer try out form | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1069'>UIMA-1069</a>] - Model file is not loaded correctly if tagger is deployed more than once in same AE | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1071'>UIMA-1071</a>] - http connector fails with some Java implementations | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1085'>UIMA-1085</a>] - Fix Sandbox NOTICE files | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1106'>UIMA-1106</a>] - update OpenCalaisAnnotator with correct encodings | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1108'>UIMA-1108</a>] - correct character offset for OpenCalais annotator | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1154'>UIMA-1154</a>] - UIMA-AS extended tests hang when running with IBM JVM 1.6 service release 1 | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1193'>UIMA-1193</a>] - Tagger throws occasional NPE | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1264'>UIMA-1264</a>] - Regex annotator goes into infinite loop on patterns that match the empty string | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1374'>UIMA-1374</a>] - TikaAnnotator source code does not compile because of incorrect package declarations | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1378'>UIMA-1378</a>] - Build of uimaj-examples project fails | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1379'>UIMA-1379</a>] - Type system namespace should be org.apache.uima.tika, not just org.apache.uima | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1384'>UIMA-1384</a>] - WhitespaceTokenizer pom still references UIMA 2.2.2 | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1385'>UIMA-1385</a>] - Regex annotator does not close concept file input stream after reading | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1392'>UIMA-1392</a>] - OpenCalaisAnnotator's annotations have truncated 'coveredText' field | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1403'>UIMA-1403</a>] - Lucas: many test cases fail | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1446'>UIMA-1446</a>] - org.apache.uima.simpleserver.config.impl.SimpleFilterImpl.match() can cause a null pointer exception | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1447'>UIMA-1447</a>] - Tabulations are annotated as tokens after a space | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1456'>UIMA-1456</a>] - SimpleServer: sample config file does not work | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1457'>UIMA-1457</a>] - SimpleServer: docs need updating for Tomcat 6 | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1460'>UIMA-1460</a>] - AnnotationTokenStream.next(Token) should not catch Throwable | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1462'>UIMA-1462</a>] - SimpleUimaAsService has checked in SimpleServer libraries as binaries | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1464'>UIMA-1464</a>] - SimpleServer NOTICE file missing JSR 173 attribution | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1528'>UIMA-1528</a>] - The documentation describes still the UEAStemmer, which was removed from the distribution | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1530'>UIMA-1530</a>] - Index naming is not unique in multithreaded scenarios | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1533'>UIMA-1533</a>] - Lucas generated test-sources jar missing license, notice, disclaimer | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1535'>UIMA-1535</a>] - Lucas POM issues | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1546'>UIMA-1546</a>] - Fix sandbox notice and license files | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1547'>UIMA-1547</a>] - XML problems with simple server test cases | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1551'>UIMA-1551</a>] - Lucas PearPackagingMavenPlugin PEAR classpath is incorrect | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1552'>UIMA-1552</a>] - Lucas: does not compile with Java 1.5 | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1554'>UIMA-1554</a>] - Fix CFE notice and license file | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1557'>UIMA-1557</a>] - LuceneCASIndexer.xml should be in src/test/resources | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1558'>UIMA-1558</a>] - LuceneCASIndexerTest fails if the created LuceneCASIndexer procsess a CAS | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1571'>UIMA-1571</a>] - FsVariables book_name should be FsVariablesUserGuide instead of fsVariablesUserGuide | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1572'>UIMA-1572</a>] - Lucas artifactId does not match folder name in svn | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1582'>UIMA-1582</a>] - SimpleServer ConfigTest fails | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1595'>UIMA-1595</a>] - Change build of Sandbox RegExpr to use xmlbean maven plugin, and delete its lib dir | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1596'>UIMA-1596</a>] - fix sandbox build - use of <profile> for conditional not working for child projects | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1597'>UIMA-1597</a>] - in sandbox common build, change needed to use assembly-bin instead of bin | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1605'>UIMA-1605</a>] - Fixed Findbugs issues | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1609'>UIMA-1609</a>] - binary assembly wrongly including FOP files | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1615'>UIMA-1615</a>] - make build-from-sources work | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1639'>UIMA-1639</a>] - Fixed bugs which disabled compiled dicts, static dict attributes | |
| </li> | |
| </ul> | |
| <h2> Improvement | |
| </h2> | |
| <ul> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-991'>UIMA-991</a>] - fix Sandbox documentation to avoid overflowing the footer on even pages | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-992'>UIMA-992</a>] - update dictionary annotator build documentation - how to create XML Beans jar | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1005'>UIMA-1005</a>] - create ant build for XMLBeans class generation | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1016'>UIMA-1016</a>] - allow URLs as dictionary files | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1301'>UIMA-1301</a>] - Update documentation, log problems when dictionary entries don't load, remove diagnostic message during dictionary loading | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1336'>UIMA-1336</a>] - allow multiple dictionary entries to match against a single string | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1370'>UIMA-1370</a>] - Lucas: add the usual suspects to svnignore | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1372'>UIMA-1372</a>] - Improve description of ConceptMapper on UIMA sandbox components web page | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1455'>UIMA-1455</a>] - Lucas should not use deprecated lucene API | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1486'>UIMA-1486</a>] - Lucas should not depend on google collections snapshot version | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1498'>UIMA-1498</a>] - if an exception is rethrown, the original exception is not currently passed through | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1501'>UIMA-1501</a>] - more refactoring and updating - parent POMs | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1506'>UIMA-1506</a>] - update Bean Scripting Framework Annotator with info about licenses and documentation | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1517'>UIMA-1517</a>] - Don't set executable bits on non-executables, when building assemblies | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1527'>UIMA-1527</a>] - Upgrade Tika Annotator for 2.3.0 release | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1529'>UIMA-1529</a>] - Lucas depends on lucene 2.4.0, it should be lucene 2.4.1 | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1537'>UIMA-1537</a>] - License Notice Disclaimer copying | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1538'>UIMA-1538</a>] - Common Build Step: build source Jars for java Jars | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1550'>UIMA-1550</a>] - Remove the uni-jena.de repository from lucas pom | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1556'>UIMA-1556</a>] - The LucasCasIndexer should be an Analysis Engine and not a CasConsumer | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1559'>UIMA-1559</a>] - lucas.xsd exists 3 times in different places | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1567'>UIMA-1567</a>] - Maven build: add <prerequisites> to uimaj to specify minimum Maven release level | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1583'>UIMA-1583</a>] - Regularize Sandbox builds and assembly | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1585'>UIMA-1585</a>] - Run RAT on projects, fix missing licenses, add RAT running to POM, document exclusions | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1586'>UIMA-1586</a>] - CFE - XMLBeans - use maven plugin to generate the parser | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1587'>UIMA-1587</a>] - replace stax jar with better licensed geronimo version | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1589'>UIMA-1589</a>] - CFE - add Readme describing how to regenerate the EMF generated files | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1590'>UIMA-1590</a>] - fix extractAndBuild scripts | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1594'>UIMA-1594</a>] - make sandbox assembly build like base and uima-as builds | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1610'>UIMA-1610</a>] - add a changeVersion build tool to handle changes needed in sandbox release | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1613'>UIMA-1613</a>] - run Rat consistently for all maven assemblies | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1642'>UIMA-1642</a>] - Regex rule file parameter should allow wildcard expressions when using the datapath to locate rule files | |
| </li> | |
| </ul> | |
| <h2> New Feature | |
| </h2> | |
| <ul> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-880'>UIMA-880</a>] - Make PEAR installation path configurable in web.xml | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1021'>UIMA-1021</a>] - implement OpenCalais service wrapper annotator | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1033'>UIMA-1033</a>] - ConceptMapper--a highly configurable, token-based dictionary lookup UIMA component | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1065'>UIMA-1065</a>] - CFE - configurable feature extrator for UIMA annotation comparison, evaluation, testing, generation of machine learning features | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1095'>UIMA-1095</a>] - Implement a Tika Annotator | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1299'>UIMA-1299</a>] - Contribution of Lucene CAS Indexer | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1371'>UIMA-1371</a>] - Performance improvement: remove reliance on Property class and excess String building to reduce in-memory dictionary size. | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1526'>UIMA-1526</a>] - The adaptor of the lucene stop word filter dosn't support the case sensitive flag | |
| </li> | |
| </ul> | |
| <h2> Task | |
| </h2> | |
| <ul> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1361'>UIMA-1361</a>] - Lucas: Convert documentation into docbook format | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1461'>UIMA-1461</a>] - update sandbox POMs to 2.3.0-incubating-SNAPSHOT version | |
| </li> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1614'>UIMA-1614</a>] - update 2.3.0-incubating-SNAPSHOT to drop the snapshot in prep for release | |
| </li> | |
| </ul> | |
| <h2> Wish | |
| </h2> | |
| <ul> | |
| <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1469'>UIMA-1469</a>] - Add Lucas to the sandbox home page | |
| </li> | |
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