<s>
LanguageWare	B-Language
is	O
a	O
natural	B-Language
language	I-Language
processing	I-Language
(	O
NLP	B-Language
)	O
technology	O
developed	O
by	O
IBM	O
,	O
which	O
allows	O
applications	O
to	O
process	O
natural	O
language	O
text	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
comprises	O
a	O
set	O
of	O
Java	O
libraries	O
which	O
provide	O
a	O
range	O
of	O
NLP	B-Language
functions	O
:	O
language	B-General_Concept
identification	I-General_Concept
,	O
text	O
segmentation/tokenization	O
,	O
normalization	O
,	O
entity	O
and	O
relationship	O
extraction	O
,	O
and	O
semantic	O
analysis	O
and	O
disambiguation	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
analysis	O
engine	O
uses	O
Finite	B-Architecture
State	I-Architecture
Machine	I-Architecture
approach	O
at	O
multiple	O
levels	O
,	O
which	O
aids	O
its	O
performance	O
characteristics	O
,	O
while	O
maintaining	O
a	O
reasonably	O
small	O
footprint	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
default	O
set	O
of	O
resources	O
comes	O
as	O
part	O
of	O
LanguageWare	B-Language
and	O
these	O
describe	O
the	O
native	O
language	O
characteristics	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
morphology	O
,	O
and	O
the	O
basic	O
vocabulary	O
for	O
the	O
language	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
set	O
of	O
Eclipse-based	O
customization	O
tooling	O
,	O
LanguageWare	B-Language
Resource	O
Workbench	O
,	O
is	O
available	O
on	O
IBM	O
's	O
alphaWorks	O
site	O
,	O
and	O
allows	O
domain	O
knowledge	O
to	O
be	O
compiled	O
into	O
these	O
resources	O
and	O
thereby	O
incorporated	O
into	O
the	O
analysis	O
process	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
LanguageWare	B-Language
can	O
be	O
deployed	O
as	O
a	O
set	O
of	O
UIMA-compliant	O
annotators	O
,	O
Eclipse	B-Application
plug-ins	O
or	O
Web	O
Services	O
.	O
</s>
