You Remember UIMA: LanugageWare and Translation Support

December 21, 2011

IBM has recently deployed a new natural language processing technology, as described on its “Content Analytics” page. LanguageWare is available only as a feature of IBM Content Analytics. The write up describes the addition:

“LanguageWare is used to develop Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) compliant custom information annotators. It also provides a highly optimized rules engine to help reduce development time. In combination with IBM Content Analytics version 2.2, LanguageWare may be used to:

Develop and deploy custom text analytics for IBM Content Analytics that address industry-specific requirements.

Easily create and add new facets into IBM Content Analytics rapid insight search and exploration user interface

Develop lexical analysis for both deeper and new language support.”

Unstructured Information Management Architecture refers to an open and scalable platform for working with unstructured data. Though the concept began at IBM, it has since moved into the open source realm; Apache’s page on the project can be found here. IBM seems to be enthusiastic about open source. Is open source better, faster, cheaper than IBM’s own technologies?

It is almost the New Year. We wish the company would put these products online as robust demonstrations. We are disinclined to believe big company public relations, but we do believe our test queries and our hands on experiences. How about a New Year’s resolution from IBM to put these asserted technologies on display? Perhaps that “exposes” technology is a way that undermines public relations? PR may be safer than live demos in the real, wild 2012 world.

Cynthia Murrell, December 21, 2011

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