| Welcome to Apache UIMA (Unstructured Information Management Architecture), a incubator project of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). | |
| Our goal is a thriving community of users and developers of UIMA frameworks, supporting components for analysing unstructured content such as text, audio and video. | |
| What is UIMA? | |
| 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. | |
| 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 OASIS , a standards organization). | |
| We invite and encourage you to participate in both the implementation and specification efforts. | |
| 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. | |
| Apache UIMA mailing lists: | |
| Users - uima-user@incubator.apache.org | |
| Developers - uima-dev@incubator.apache.org | |
| Commits - uima-commits@incubator.apache.org | |
| Apache UIMA project committers: | |
| Michael Baessler | |
| Edward Epstein | |
| Thilo Goetz | |
| Adam Lally | |
| Marshall Schor | |
| Apache UIMA project Mentors: | |
| Ken Coar (ASF member and Vice President) | |
| Sam Ruby (ASF member) |