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Publication date November, 2011

Table of Contents 1. Overview ...................................................................................................................... 1 1.1. Apache UIMA Project Documentation Overview .................................................... 1 1.1.1. Overviews ............................................................................................... 2 1.1.2. Eclipse Tooling Installation and Setup ........................................................ 2 1.1.3. Tutorials and Developer's Guides ............................................................... 2 1.1.4. Tools Users' Guides ................................................................................. 3 1.1.5. References ............................................................................................... 4 1.2. How to use the Documentation ............................................................................ 5 1.3. Changes from Previous Major Versions ................................................................. 6 1.3.1. Changes from IBM UIMA 2.0 to Apache UIMA 2.1 ..................................... 6 1.3.2. Changes from UIMA Version 1.x .............................................................. 7 1.4. Migrating from IBM UIMA to Apache UIMA ....................................................... 9 1.4.1. Running the Migration Utility .................................................................... 9 1.4.2. Manual Migration ................................................................................... 10 1.5. Apache UIMA Summary ................................................................................... 12 1.5.1. General ................................................................................................. 12 1.5.2. Programming Language Support .............................................................. 12 1.5.3. Multi-Modal Support .............................................................................. 12 1.5.4. Semantic Search Components .................................................................. 12 1.6. Summary of Apache UIMA Capabilities .............................................................. 12 2. UIMA Conceptual Overview ........................................................................................ 17 2.1. UIMA Introduction ........................................................................................... 17 2.2. The Architecture, the Framework and the SDK ..................................................... 18 2.3. Analysis Basics ................................................................................................. 19 2.3.1. Analysis Engines, Annotators & Results .................................................... 19 2.3.2. Representing Analysis Results in the CAS ................................................. 20 2.3.3. Using CASes and External Resources ...................