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| <title>Apache UIMA</title> |
| <author email="dev@uima.apache.org"> |
| Apache UIMA Documentation Team |
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| <body> |
| <section name="Welcome to the Apache UIMA project"> |
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| <p> |
| Welcome to the Apache UIMA™ project. Our goal is to support a thriving community of users and |
| developers of UIMA frameworks, tools, and annotators, |
| facilitating the analysis of unstructured content such as text, audio and |
| video. |
| </p> |
| |
| <h2>What is UIMA?</h2> |
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| <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. 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. |
| </p> |
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| <img style="float: right;" src="./images/UimaIs.png" width="430" alt="UIMA is made of many things" /> |
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| <p>UIMA enables applications to be decomposed into components, |
| for example "language identification" => "language |
| specific segmentation" => "sentence boundary |
| detection" => "entity detection (person/place names |
| etc.)". Each component implements interfaces defined |
| by the framework and provides 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. |
| </p> |
| |
| <p>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> |
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| <p> |
| Apache UIMA is an Apache-licensed open source |
| implementation of the |
| UIMA specification <a href="https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/28492/uima-spec-wd-05.pdf">[pdf]</a> |
| <a href="https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/28491/uima-spec-wd-05.doc">[doc]</a> (that |
| specification is, in turn, being developed concurrently |
| by a technical committee within |
| <a href="https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=uima">OASIS</a> |
| , a standards organization). We invite and encourage you |
| to participate in both the implementation and |
| specification efforts. |
| </p> |
| |
| <p class="nobottomspace">Here you can find:</p> |
| <ul class="noverticalspace"> |
| <li>Frameworks</li> |
| <li>Components, and</li> |
| <li>Infrastructure,</li> |
| </ul> |
| <p class="notopspace">all licensed under the Apache license. The dashed-line boxes |
| above are placeholders for possible future additions. |
| </p> |
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| <p> |
| The <a href="doc-uima-why.html">Frameworks</a> run the components, and are available for both Java and |
| C++. The |
| <a href="doc-uima-examples.html">Java Framework</a> supports running both Java and non-Java |
| components (using the C++ framework). The |
| <a href="doc-uimacpp-huh.html">C++ framework</a>, besides |
| supporting annotators written in C/C++, also supports Perl, Python, and |
| TCL annotators. |
| </p> |
| |
| <p>The frameworks support configuring and running pipelines of |
| Annotator components. These components do the actual work |
| of analyzing the unstructured information. Users can <a href="doc-uima-annotator.html">write |
| their own annotators</a>, or configure and use pre-existing |
| annotators. Some annotators are <a href="sandbox.html#uima-addons-annotators">available as part of this project</a>; |
| others are contained in <a href="external-resources.html">various repositories</a> on the internet. |
| GitHub.com lists over |
| <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" |
| href="https://github.com/apache/uima-uimaj/network/dependents?package_id=UGFja2FnZS0xNzk4MzkxNTI%3D">900 repositories</a> that have dependencies on |
| the UIMA Java SDK core. |
| </p> |
| |
| <p>In 2018, the internals of the UIMA Java framework were redesigned for a tighter integration with Java |
| including for example, |
| <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" |
| href="https://uima.apache.org/d/uimaj-current/version_3_users_guide.html#uv3.select.terminal_form_actions.streams">Java Streams</a> |
| support for working with annotations, and for |
| supporting higher performance on modern processors with memory caches. This is available as Version 3.x.x |
| of the UIMA Java SDK, and associated components. Version 2 continues to be supported, but new work should |
| use version 3. </p> |
| |
| <p>An extensive rule-based scripting language |
| (<a href="ruta.html">RUTA</a>), an associated analysis engine built on top of UIMA, and an Eclipse-based tooling workbench for interactively |
| developing and testing the rules, is part of this project. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| Additional infrastructure support components include a <a href="sandbox.html#simple-server">simple |
| server</a> that can receive REST requests and return annotation results, |
| for use by other web services. |
| </p> |
| |
| <p>The <a href="sandbox.html">Addons and Sandbox</a> is for Addons (Annotators and other things) for UIMA, and |
| a place where new ideas are developed for potential incorporation into the project. |
| </p> |
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| </section> |
| |
| <section name="UIMA News"> |
| <p>Click <a href="news.html">News</a> for a listing of releases and other news.</p> |
| </section> |
| </body> |
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