<s>
UIMA	B-Application
(	O
)	O
,	O
short	O
for	O
Unstructured	B-Application
Information	I-Application
Management	O
Architecture	O
,	O
is	O
an	O
OASIS	O
standard	O
for	O
content	O
analytics	O
,	O
originally	O
developed	O
at	O
IBM	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
provides	O
a	O
component	B-Architecture
software	I-Architecture
architecture	O
for	O
the	O
development	O
,	O
discovery	O
,	O
composition	O
,	O
and	O
deployment	O
of	O
multi-modal	O
analytics	O
for	O
the	O
analysis	O
of	O
unstructured	B-Application
information	I-Application
and	O
integration	O
with	O
search	B-Application
technologies	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
UIMA	B-Application
architecture	O
can	O
be	O
thought	O
of	O
in	O
four	O
dimensions	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
specifies	O
component	O
interfaces	O
in	O
an	O
analytics	O
pipeline	B-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
suggests	O
two	O
data	O
representations	O
:	O
an	O
in-memory	O
representation	O
of	O
annotations	O
for	O
high-performance	O
analytics	O
and	O
an	O
XML	B-Protocol
representation	O
of	O
annotations	O
for	O
integration	O
with	O
remote	O
web	O
services	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Apache	O
UIMA	B-Application
,	O
a	O
reference	O
implementation	O
of	O
UIMA	B-Application
,	O
is	O
maintained	O
by	O
the	O
Apache	O
Software	O
Foundation	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
UIMA	B-Application
is	O
used	O
in	O
a	O
number	O
of	O
software	O
projects	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
IBM	O
Research	O
's	O
Watson	B-Application
uses	O
UIMA	B-Application
for	O
analyzing	O
unstructured	B-Application
data	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Clinical	O
Text	O
Analysis	O
and	O
Knowledge	O
Extraction	O
System	O
(	O
Apache	B-Application
cTAKES	I-Application
)	O
is	O
a	O
UIMA-based	O
system	O
for	O
information	B-General_Concept
extraction	I-General_Concept
from	O
medical	O
records	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
DKPro	O
Core	O
is	O
a	O
collection	O
of	O
reusable	O
UIMA	B-Application
components	O
for	O
general-purpose	O
natural	O
language	O
processing	O
.	O
</s>
