Summary

Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) has the potential to discover a gold mine of information in the mountains of unstructured information most companies already have. Designed to provide a standard way of storing data known as Annotations, UIMA also provides a standard way of using individual pluggable components to perform each step.

In this tutorial, you learned how to create type system to define a particular kind of data, how to program an Annotator to look for that data, and how to turn it into an Analysis Engine that other applications can use. You also learned how to create an application that programmatically controls this process, as well as retrieving information once it's been stored.

In short, you have learned the foundation of the UIMA. Any application, no matter how complex, no matter what type of media you're searching, no matter how geographically diverse your systems, uses the same basic principles to accomplish its mission.

In Part 2 of this series, you will take the ProductNumber Analysis Engine and deploy it as a Web service, enabling UIMA applications to access it from anywhere.

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Table of contents

• Before you start
• What is UIMA?
• The project
• Prepare the environment
• Create the type description
• Create the Annotator
• Create the Analysis Engine descriptor
• Test the Analysis Engine
• Create an application
• Summary
• Resources
• About the author

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