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Unstructured Information Management Applications 2.5.0 (2014/01/14)

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Developed by: IBM (originally) Apache software foundation (now)
License: Apache License
Web page : Tool homepage
Tool type : Framework/Library/API, {{{field_language}}}

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The last edition of this page was on: 2014/03/24

The Completion level of this page is : Low


SHORT DESCRIPTION

Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) is a component framework to analyze unstructured content such as text, audio and video. This is originally developed by IBM. UIMA enables applications to be decomposed into components, for example “language identification” => “language specific segmentation” => “sentence boundary detection” => Each component implements interfaces defined by the framework and provides self describing metadata via XML descriptor files. Also 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.


TOOL CHARACTERISTICS

Usability

Authors of this page consider that this tool is difficult to use.

Tool orientation

This tool is designed for general purpose analysis.

Data mining type

This tool is made for Text mining, Image mining, Audio mining, Video mining.

Manipulation type

This tool is designed for Data extraction, Data transformation.

IMPORT FORMAT :

EXPORT FORMAT :


Tool objective(s) in the field of Learning Sciences

Analysis & Visualisation of data
Predicting student performance
Student modelling
Social Network Analysis (SNA)
Constructing courseware

Providing feedback for supporting instructors:
Recommendations for students
Grouping students:
Developing concept maps:
Planning/scheduling/monitoring
Experimentation/observation

Tool can perform:

  • Data extraction of type:
  • Transformation of type: Simple data transformation operations, Advanced data transformation operations
  • Data analysis of type:
  • Data visualisation of type: (These visualisations can be interactive and updated in "real time")



ABOUT USERS

Tool is suitable for:

Students/Learners/Consumers
Teachers/Tutors/Managers
Researchers
Developers/Designers
Organisations/Institutions/Firms
Others

Required skills:

STATISTICS: Basic

PROGRAMMING: Advanced

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION: Advanced

DATA MINING MODELS: Medium



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Tool version : Unstructured Information Management Applications 2.5.0 2014/01/14
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Developed by : IBM (originally) Apache software foundation (now)
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Tool Web page : http://uima.apache.org/
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Tool type : Framework/Library/API
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License:Apache License

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SHORT DESCRIPTION


Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) is a component framework to analyze unstructured content such as text, audio and video. This is originally developed by IBM. UIMA enables applications to be decomposed into components, for example “language identification” => “language specific segmentation” => “sentence boundary detection” => Each component implements interfaces defined by the framework and provides self describing metadata via XML descriptor files. Also 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.

TOOL CHARACTERISTICS


Tool orientation Data mining type Usability
This tool is designed for general purpose analysis. This tool is designed for Text mining, Image mining, Audio mining, Video mining. Authors of this page consider that this tool is difficult to use.
Data import format Data export format
. .
Tool objective(s) in the field of Learning Sciences

☑ Analysis & Visualisation of data
☑ Predicting student performance
☑ Student modelling
☑ Social Network Analysis (SNA)
☑ Constructing courseware

☑ Providing feedback for supporting instructors:
☑ Recommendations for students
☑ Grouping students:
☑ Developing concept maps:
☑ Planning/scheduling/monitoring
Experimentation/observation

Can perform data extraction of type:


Can perform data transformation of type:
Simple data transformation operations, Advanced data transformation operations


Can perform data analysis of type:

Can perform data visualisation of type:
(These visualisations can be interactive and updated in "real time")


ABOUT USER


Tool is suitable for:
Students/Learners/Consumers:☑ Teachers/Tutors/Managers:☑ Researchers:☑ Organisations/Institutions/Firms:☑ Others:☑
Required skills:
Statistics: BASIC Programming: ADVANCED System administration: ADVANCED Data mining models: MEDIUM

OTHER TOOL INFORMATION


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Unstructured Information Management Applications
Apache License
Free&Open source
IBM (originally) Apache software foundation (now)
2014/01/14
2.5.0
http://uima.apache.org/
Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) is a component framework to analyze unstructured content such as text, audio and video. This is originally developed by IBM.

UIMA enables applications to be decomposed into components, for example “language identification” => “language specific segmentation” => “sentence boundary detection” => Each component implements interfaces defined by the framework and provides self describing metadata via XML descriptor files. Also 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.

General analysis
Developers/Designers
Basic
Advanced
Advanced
Medium
Framework/Library/API
Text mining, Image mining, Audio mining, Video mining
Data extraction, Data transformation
Simple data transformation operations, Advanced data transformation operations
difficult to use
Low
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The Frameworks run the components, and are available for both Java and C++. The Java Framework supports running both Java and non-Java components (using the C++ framework). The C++ framework, besides supporting annotators written in C/C++, also supports Perl, Python, and TCL annotators. The UIMA-AS and UIMA-DUCC are both Scaleout Frameworks and are addons to the base Java framework. The UIMA-AS supports very flexible scaleout capability based on JMS (Java Messaging Services) and ActiveMQ. The UIMA-DUCC extends UIMA-AS by providing cluster management services to automate the scale-out of UIMA pipelines over computing clusters.

The frameworks support configuring and running pipelines of Annotator components. These components do the actual work of analyzing the unstructured information. Users can write their own annotators, or configure and use pre-existing annotators. Some annotators are available as part of this project; others are contained in various repositories on the internet.

Additional infrastructure support components include a simple server that can receive REST requests and return annotation results, for use by other web services.