Hello Jeremy, > I wonder if there are UIMA annotator Libraries out on the Web for common > annotation such as names, locations, phone numbers etc.
For tasks like extracting namens and locations, a Named Entity Detection component can be used. There are several that I know of: - AlchemyAPIAnnotator in the UIMA sandbox seems to provide NER annotations (uses an online service) http://uima.apache.org/sandbox.html#alchemy.annotator - ClearTK has a NER module http://code.google.com/p/cleartk/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk%2Fcleartk-named-entity - DKPro Core GPL provides an integration of the Stanford NER tools http://code.google.com/p/dkpro-core-gpl/source/browse/de.tudarmstadt.ukp.dkpro.core-gpl/trunk/de.tudarmstadt.ukp.dkpro.core.stanfordnlp/src/test/java/de/tudarmstadt/ukp/dkpro/core/stanfordnlp/StanfordNamedEntityRecognizerTest.java - OpenCalais Annotator in the UIMA sandbox seems to provide NER annotations (uses an online service) http://uima.apache.org/sandbox.html#opencalais.annotator - OpenNLP has a NER engine https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/opennlp/trunk/opennlp-uima/src/main/java/opennlp/uima/namefind/ If you do not need to be as sophisticated, you could use - the Dictionary Annotator from the UIMA sandbox http://uima.apache.org/sandbox.html#dict.annotator - or maybe the Concept Mapper Annotator from the UIMA sandbox http://uima.apache.org/sandbox.html#concept.mapper.annotator For extracting phone numbers, etc. you'll probably want something that can match regular expressions. You probably should check out - the Regular Expression Annotator in the UIMA sandbox http://uima.apache.org/sandbox.html#regex.annotator - the TextMarker engine that has recently been contributed to Apache UIMA Sanbox http://www.is.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/forschung/anwendungen/textmarker/ Cheers, -- Richard -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Eckart de Castilho Technical Lead Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP-TUD) FB 20 Computer Science Department Technische Universität Darmstadt Hochschulstr. 10, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany phone [+49] (0)6151 16-7477, fax -5455, room S2/02/B117 [email protected] www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de Web Research at TU Darmstadt (WeRC) www.werc.tu-darmstadt.de -------------------------------------------------------------------
