A Gentle Introduction to UIMA

Bjorn Rudzewitz

brzdwtz@sfs.uni-tuebingen.de

University of Tubingen

May 13, 2016

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Introduction

Conceptual Overview

References

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Introduction

I Unstructured Information Management ArchitectureI Framework:

I define components after pre-defined patternsI adapt components for your use

I from unstructured information (text, video, audio, etc.) tostructured information (POS sequences, Trees, XML, etc.)

I scalable, highly flexible framework

I IBM Watson

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References

Official UIMA Documentation:https://uima.apache.org/d/uimaj-current/index.html

(last accessed 12/05/2016)

David Ferrucci and Adam Lally. UIMA: an architectural approachto unstructured information processing in the corporate researchenvironment. Natural Language Engineering, 10(3-4):327–348,2004.

Philip Ogren and Steven Bethard. Building test suites for UIMAcomponents. In Proceedings of the Workshop on SoftwareEngineering, Testing, and Quality Assurance for NaturalLanguage Processing (SETQA-NLP 2009), pages 1–4, Boulder,Colorado, June 2009. Association for Computational Linguistics.URL http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W09/W09-1501.

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