In this post, I’m going to walk you through the process of indexing UIMA annotated documents with Solr. In a previous post, Finding Movie Starts, I demonstrated how we can use UIMA to find and tag structured information in unstructured data. In most scenarios, once we have that data we extracted, we want to be able to query it. To do this, we can put our data into a data store, be it an RDMS, document store, graph, or other. ... Read more

In this post, we are going to use text analysis tools UIMA and OpenNLP to identify film personas, like directors and screenwriters, from a corpus of movie reviews. Warning: Working knowledge of Java is necessary for completing this guide. Estimated required time: ~60-90 minutes Overview of Natural Language Processing Since the 70s, experts and businesses had realised the potential that exists in gathering, storing, and processing information about their operations to add and create new value for their organisation and their customers. ... Read more