IBM Aids Development of Open and Standard Content Analytics Software

IBM Aids Development of Open and Standard Content Analytics Software

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced two major steps intended to assist in the open development and standardization of search and content analytics software. The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) has established a Technical Committee to standardize the Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) specification. Additionally, the Apache Software Foundation has established an incubator project for developing UIMA-based software. These efforts are based on IBM’s development of UIMA software and its experience with clients and partners in deploying content analytic solutions.

Enterprises increasingly depend on the ability to find and analyze information, of many forms and from many places. These could include call center notes, customer surveys, patent records, e-mails, audio recordings, images, video, blog entries, and news feeds. Content analytics enables organizations to more precisely find the best information and enables them to more deeply analyze underlying context.

“We’re making UIMA available to the community at large with the belief that it can help accelerate innovation, collaboration, and adoption of semantic search and content analytics software,” said Nelson Mattos, vice president, Information and Interaction, IBM Research. “So, the ultimate goal is to help organizations get more value out of their unstructured information by discovering relationships, identifying patterns, and predicting outcomes.”

Members of the OASIS international standards consortium have formed the OASIS UIMA Technical Committee, to refine and finalize a set of specifications based on an initial contribution from IBM with input from DARPA, Carnegie Mellon University, Columbia University, Stanford University, The University of Massachusetts Amherst, MITRE Corporation and Science Applications International Corporation. Technical Committee founding members include representation from IBM, EMC, SRI International, Science Applications International Corporation, Temis, Thompson, Army Information and Intelligence Warfare Directorate, University of Sheffield and Carnegie Mellon University.

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