Thursday, December 30, 2004

Unstructered Information Management

UIM is something that IBM has been doing a lot of research and development on.  I caught this reference from an article in the NY Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/26/business/yourmoney/26techno.html) entitled “At I.B.M., That Google Thing Is So Yesterday”.  This article refers to some work being done under the direction of Arthur Ciccolo within IBM Research (http://www.research.ibm.com/UIMA/index.htm) at the T.J. Watson Research Center

 

Their goal is to create an infrastructure that provides the ability to combine the various information extraction and knowledge discovery techniques in an effective fashion – rather than each one having to re-process the information, is there a way to leverage each of these using some infrastructure and get better throughput and results?  I’ve only begun to dig through their publications, but they recently had an entire IBM Systems Journal issue dedicated to this area of research (http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj43-3.html).

 

Kipp Jones

 

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