|  | Level: Intermediate Nicholas Chase (ibmquestions@nicholaschase.com), Freelance writer, Backstop Media, LLC
06 Dec 2005 Search word processing documents, emails, video, and other unstructured information for specific text or even for concepts using the Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA). Part 1 of this tutorial explains how to install and use the UIMA Eclipse plug-ins to create a simple UIMA application.
In this tutorial
- Install the UIMA SDK for Eclipse
- Create a type system
- Generate Java classes from the type system
- Create an Annotator
- Create an Analysis Engine descriptor
- Use UIMA tools such as the CAS Visual Debugger from within Eclipse
- Create an application that programmatically calls a UIMA Analysis Engine
- Programmatically access UIMA analysis data
Prerequisites
- General familiarity with working in the Eclipse IDE
- Familiarity with Java programming
System requirements
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Java 2 Standard Edition SDK. Before you can even install Eclipse, you need to have a working installation of the Java SDK. You can download version 1.4.x or higher from the following location: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp.
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The Eclipse IDE. The UIMA SDK works with both versions 2 and 3 of the Eclipse development environment, but the steps in this tutorial assume that you are using version 3.1.1. Later versions should also work, although specific steps might change slightly. You can download Eclipse from the following location: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/index.php.
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The UIMA SDK. The UIMA SDK comes in several different varieties, with installers for both Windows and UNIX. This tutorial assumes that you have downloaded the platform-independent zip file, available at http://alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/uima/download, which provides specific installation instructions.
Duration
Under two hours
Formats html, pdf
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