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PowerSet and MSFT finally announced this rumored acquisition. MSFT has acquired Powerset for close to $100 million. Powerset is a semantic search engine that extends the XEROX-PARC’s licensed linguistic technology. I have tried Powerset when it was a beta and when it got (almost abruptly) released (with search limited to wikipedia and freebase).
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IBM’s Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) was released to the open source community in early 2006 when the entire source code was made available on Sourceforge. After spending more than a year at Sourceforge, UIMA is now a part of the Apache Incubator.
UIMA is pitched to become the first and only open-standard for unstructured information [...]