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Apache UIMA (Unstructured Information Management Architecture) v3.6.0 Release Notes

Contents

What is UIMA?
Major Changes in this Release
List of JIRA Issues Fixed in this Release
How to Get Involved
How to Report Issues

What is UIMA?

Unstructured Information Management applications are software systems that analyze large volumes of unstructured information in order to discover knowledge that is relevant to an end user. UIMA is a framework and SDK for developing such applications. An example UIM application might ingest plain text and identify entities, such as persons, places, organizations; or relations, such as works-for or located-at. UIMA enables such an application to be decomposed into components, for example "language identification" -> "language specific segmentation" -> "sentence boundary detection" -> "entity detection (person/place names etc.)". Each component must implement interfaces defined by the framework and must provide self-describing metadata via XML descriptor files. The framework manages these components and the data flow between them. Components are written in Java or C++; the data that flows between components is designed for efficient mapping between these languages. UIMA additionally provides capabilities to wrap components as network services, and can scale to very large volumes by replicating processing pipelines over a cluster of networked nodes.

Apache UIMA is an Apache-licensed open source implementation of the UIMA specification (that specification is, in turn, being developed concurrently by a technical committee within OASIS, a standards organization). We invite and encourage you to participate in both the implementation and specification efforts.

UIMA is a component framework for analysing unstructured content such as text, audio and video. It comprises an SDK and tooling for composing and running analytic components written in Java and C++.

Notable changes in this release

This is a feature and bug fix release.

System requirements updated

  • Minimum Java version required: 17 or later
  • Minimum Eclipse version required: 4.25 (2022-09)

What's Changed

  • ⭐️ Issue #372: Allow adding URLs to the datapath
  • ⭐️ Issue #348: Varargs for description class setters
  • ⭐️ Issue #369: Move isTypeName and isFeatureName to public API
  • ⭐️ Issue #402: Provide bnd plugin to generate package imports based on imports in UIMA descriptors
  • ⭐️ Issue #382: Warning when PEAR contains a JCAS class that is used as a feature range outside the PEAR
  • ⭐️ Issue #385: Allow import of type systems published through SPI
  • ⭐️ Issue #387: Simplify creation of new UIMAContext
  • ⭐️ Issue #390: Merge uimaFIT modules into UIMA-J repository
  • ⭐️ Issue #393: Include uimaFIT artifacts in binary distribution
  • 🦟 Issue #368: select(AnnotationBaseFs-type).count() seems to return MAX_LONG
  • 🦟 Issue #371: Repeated creation of type systems can exhaust JVM metaspace
  • 🦟 Issue #395: Potential failure to look up UIMA-internal classes in OSGI-like contexts
  • ⚙️ Issue #379: Clean up code
  • ⚙️ Issue #398: Mark Maven plugins as thread-safe
  • ⚙️ Issue #404: Remove toolchains
  • ⚙️ Issue #407: Clean up PearPackagingMavenPlugin
  • ⚙️ Issue #409: Update dependencies
  • ⚙️ Issue #417: BOM should not inherit build setup from parent POM

Full Changelog: https://github.com/apache/uima-uimaj/compare/rel/uimaj-3.5.1...uimaj-3.6.0

How to Get Involved

The Apache UIMA project really needs and appreciates any contributions, including documentation help, source code and feedback. If you are interested in contributing, please visit http://uima.apache.org/get-involved.html.

How to Report Issues

The Apache UIMA project uses GitHub for issue tracking. Please report any issues you find at https://github.com/apache/uima-uimaj/issues.