Indexing UIMA Annotated Docs, with Solr
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. Likewise, it is also very common for us to need some kind of search capability on our system, so that we or our users can find relevant information. This is what we’re going to do. Having UIMA annotations with information on what directors and actors are mentioned in a review, we want to be able to search for reviews that mention specific actors, directors, or just search for reviews that do mention screenwriters. ...