Surprisingly UIMA is not per se a text mining tool. Text mining typically is thought of as a form of Data Mining, where (some of) the data is textual, and the main issue is one of scale.
UIMA has scaling capabilities (in the extensions UIMA-AS and DUCC). But Core UIMA is not in itself about scaling. People have combined UIMA with other scaling projects such as Hadoop. This page http://uima.apache.org/doc-uima-why.html has some information about why UIMA is used, and the main page, http://uima.apache.org/ has some other information about this. One main idea is that UIMA by itself is just a framework to combine independently-developed Annotators (and possibly help scale them out). Over time, lots of different kinds of annotators have been developed. A few of them are part of the UIMA project itself. But many others are available. Google uima annotators to see some of them. HTH -Marshall On 2/1/2013 12:35 PM, Padma Sree wrote: > Hi , > Am a student and my my project usiing uima :) , Can u just plz telll me > advantage of uima over other text mining tools (like GATE,Carrot2,apache > stanford etc..)? > > > Thnx&Regards > Padmasree.H >
