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Ronen Feldman, in DMReview.com, August 25, 2005

Earlier this month IBM announced the open unstructured information management architecture (UIMA) standard, essentially a platform for integrating structured data and unstructured information. Even if they don't directly claim to have done so, Big Blue has officially offered the world a blueprint for UBI. This is a very good thing; the successful unification of structured data and unstructured content means faster innovation, better CRM, improved financial insight, reduced costs and all-around better performance.

UIMA is a standard architecture developed by IBM Research that can be used to add text analytics to any application. It enables interoperability among different analytics software and enterprise applications, and provides tools for developers to speed the creation of new, reusable text analytics components. UIMA can also be used to support wider reaching enterprise search applications by providing a common mechanism for delivering natural language processing, helping computers understand text and extract deeper levels of meaning, including the relationships that define specific facts. UIMA compliant text analytic components can use WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Edition to clarify the meaning of terms, mine text to find hidden knowledge and extract useful business information.

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