<html> <!-- *************************************************************** * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file * distributed with this work for additional information * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, * software distributed under the License is distributed on an * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the * specific language governing permissions and limitations * under the License. *************************************************************** --> <head> <title>Apache UIMA Addons v2.3.1 Release Notes</title> </head> <body> <h1>Apache UIMA Addons v2.3.1 Release Notes</h1> <h2>Contents</h2> <p> <a href="#what.is.uima-addons">1. What is the UIMA-Addons package?</a><br/> <a href="#major.changes">2. Major Changes in this Release</a><br/> <a href="#get.involved">3. How to Get Involved</a><br/> <a href="#report.issues">4. How to Report Issues</a><br/> <a href="#list.issues">5. List of JIRA Issues Fixed in this Release</a> </p> <h2><a name="what.is.uima-addons">1. What is the UIMA-Addons package?</a></h2> <p> The Apache UIMA addons package is a collection of additional components for the base UIMA release. The add-on package contains annotator components developed for Apache UIMA. The add-on package fits the Apache UIMA directory structure and adds a directory called "addons lib" that contains the following annotator components: <ul> <li>DictionaryAnnotator</li> <li>RegularExpressionAnnotator</li> <li>Tagger</li> <li>WhitespaceTokenizer</li> <li>Bean Scripting Framework (BSF) BSFAnnotator</li> <li>ConceptMapper</li> <li>ConfigurableFeatureExtractor</li> <li>Lucas</li> <li>OpenCalaisAnnotator</li> <li>SnowballAnnotator</li> <li>TikaAnnotator</li> <li>AlchemyAPIAnnotator</li> <li>Solrcas</li> </ul> Additionally the package contains some components to package annotators and for accessing annotators as simple REST service. These are: <ul> <li>PearPackagingAntTask</li> <li>SimpleServer</li> </ul> There is an addon to the base UIMA: <ul> <li>FsVariables</li> </ul> <p>Each component has a separate LICENSE and NOTICE files; some also have Readme and other documentation (in docs/). Documentation is also available on the UIMA website, in the Sandbox area. </p> <h2><a name="major.changes">2. Major Changes in this Release</a></h2> <p> The following components were added in this release: <ul> <li>AlchemyAPI Annotator - is an annotator wrapping alchemyapi.com services providing named entity extraction, keyword/concept tagging, etc. </li> <li>Solrcas - is a CAS Consumer component that can store CAS objects into an Apache Solr instance</li> </ul> The following are the main changes to existing components: <ul> <li>TikaAnnotator - now using Apache Tika 0.7 instead of 0.4, language extracted by Tika goes inside CAS documentLanguage </li> <li>Lucas - now using Apache Lucene 2.9.3</li> <li>Tagger - added an AnalysisEngine to train HMM Tagger models</li> <li>OpenCalaisAnnotator - fixed negative begin/end values bug</li> <li>Generally fixed URI/space handling</li> </ul> </p> <h2><a name="get.involved">3. How to Get Involved</a></h2> <p> 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 <a href="http://uima.apache.org/get-involved.html"> http://uima.apache.org/get-involved.html</a>. </p> <h2><a name="report.issues">4. How to Report Issues</a></h2> <p> The Apache UIMA project uses JIRA for issue tracking. Please report any issues you find at <a href="http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/uima">http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/uima</a> </p> <h2><a name="list.issues">5. List of JIRA Issues Fixed in this Release</a></h2> Click <a href="issuesFixed/jira-report.html">issuesFixed/jira-report.hmtl</a> or <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=project+%3D+UIMA+AND+resolution+%3D+Fixed+AND+fixVersion+%3D+12316093+AND+status+in+%28Closed%2C+Resolved%29+ORDER+BY+issuetype+ASC%2C+key+ASC%2C+status+ASC"> Jira</a> for the list of issues fixed in this release. </body> </html>