Does DeepQA use UIMA?
Yes. UIMA is a standard framework for building applications that perform deep analysis on unstructured content, including natural language text, speech, images and video. IBM contributed UIMA to open-source (see the Apache UIMA web site) to help facilitate and accelerate work in deep content analytics. UIMA is also now an OASIS standard. UIMA-AS implements UIMA on asynchronous messaging middleware. DeepQA and the Watson system uses UIMA-AS as its principal infrastructure for assembling, scaling-out and deploying all its analytic components.
