IBM Systems Journal articles from September 2004

IBM Systems Journal archives from September 2004

Introduction.(unstructured information management)(Column)
September 1, 2004... The opportunity presented by unstructured information management (UIM) is enormous, and we believe it will significantly change not only our industry but society as well over the next decade. Database technology fundamentally changed the way...

Preface.(Unstructured Information Management Architecture)(Column)
September 1, 2004... Human beings and the computer systems they design generally operate best with information sources that are organized. Information in these sources is typically stored in a predefined format, facilitating its search, retrieval, and analysis....

Towards the next generation of enterprise search technology.
September 1, 2004... The Web revolution has exposed hundreds of millions of people to the experiences of searching and taxonomy browsing and has reshaped their expectations of the knowledge retrieval process, not only while browsing the Web, but more importantly,...

Building an example application with the Unstructured Information Management Architecture.
September 1, 2004... Structured information may be characterized as information whose intended meaning is unambiguous and explicitly represented in the structure or format of the data. The canonical example of structured information is a relational database...

Design and implementation of the UIMA Common Analysis System.(Unstructured Information Management Architecture)
September 1, 2004... The Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) defines a framework for implementing systems for the analysis of unstructured data. (1,2) In contrast to structured information, whose meaning is expressed by the structure or format...

Text analytics for life science using the Unstructured Information Management Architecture.
September 1, 2004... The large scale sequencing of the human genome has greatly increased our knowledge of the genetic basis of biological processes and accelerated the pace of research and development aimed at treating disease and enhancing the health and...

A text-mining system for knowledge discovery from biomedical documents.
September 1, 2004... The life science industry is an emerging market in which application spaces, such as drug discovery and development in the pharmaceutical sector and clinical record management in health care, have become areas of significant recent interest....

Market Intelligence Portal: an entity-based system for managing market intelligence.
September 1, 2004... Enterprise executives often need to integrate market intelligence information from various sources, but its current volume impedes their manual efforts. Moreover, with the appearance of efficient information digitalization methods and rapid...

Glossary extraction and utilization in the information search and delivery system for IBM Technical Support.
September 1, 2004... As information technology (IT) advances, the number of products released and their associated documents increase at a rapid pace. Technical authors, and in particular authors of documents for product support, often use terms and words that...

Summarizing technical support documents for search: expert and user studies.
September 1, 2004... In the not so distant past when customers needed technical support, they would pick up the telephone and call an expert at a help desk. However, the cost of providing support to customers, partners, and employees has placed an increasing...

The Four-Domain Architecture: an approach to support enterprise architecture design.
September 1, 2004... As an enterprise grows in size and complexity, several factors impede its abilities to solve the problems that it faces. The point is rapidly reached where the factors that come into play in structuring and conducting the business of the...

The role of ontologies in autonomic computing systems.
September 1, 2004... The increasing complexity of information technology (IT) systems demands a correspondingly greater effort for systems management. Today, many systems management tasks such as system configuration, performance analysis, performance tuning,...

Beyond Software Architecture.(by Luke Hohmann)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Beyond Software Architecture, Luke Hohmann, Pearson Education, Inc., Boston, MA (2003). 314 pp. (ISBN 0-201-77594-8). Luke Hohmann's interesting book of practical advice on software projects definitely bears reading. It is not the book I...