UIMA - Unstructured information management architecture

UIMA analyzes large volumes of unstructured information in order to discover knowledge that is relevant to an end user. It is a framework with different set of components. The components include Language Identification, Language specific segmentation, Sentence boundary detection, Entity detection (person/place names) etc. The framework manages these components and the data flows between them. It could detects entities like email addresses, URLs, phone numbers, zip codes or any other entity based on regular expressions.