IBM Open Sources UIMA

psykocrime writes "Line56 is reporting that IBM has open-sourced core components of their UIMA project. UIMA is (or was) an IBM Research Project for managing "unstructured information" such as free-text. IBM describes UIMA as: 'an open, industrial-strength, scalable and extensible platform for creating, integrating and deploying unstructured information management solutions from combinations of semantic analysis and search components. [...] and makes the core Java framework available as open source software to provide a common foundation for industry and academia to collaborate and accelerate the world-wide development of technologies critical for discovering the vital knowledge present in the fastest growing sources of information today.' The newly opened source is available at SourceForge."

Comments

I admit it.

[jd]

This is one of the very few times I'm actually more confused by TFA than I am by the Slashdot summary. So it's a text object with a semantic grep function? A collection of objects that can be used in a semantic wiki? A variant of Xanadu? A Java version of "Ask Jeeves"?

Sign me up, man!

[IAAP]

Because, I can't make head nor tail of all this marketing speak. That's what I got out of reading TFA.

If you have to rely on buzz words and jargon when communicating to the popular press, then you are saying nothing, or you don't understand what the fuck you're talking about.

Re:Translation for common people:

[TheRaven64]

If they're abandoned, then it can only be good. Either someone will pick them up and do something useful with them, or they will be ignored. If they remain closed, then only the latter of these is an option.