The UIMA SDK Documentation was prepared as part of a collaborative effort between IBM Research and IBM Software Group. We would like to acknowledge the following people for their contributions to the UIMA SDK documentation. They are listed here in alphabetical order.

Eric Brown co-authored the UIMA collection processing developer guide and reference documentation. Eric manages the "UIM Systems" group at T.J. Watson Research Center. His team develops UIMA metadata tooling and advanced knowledge gathering frameworks using UIMA.

Jerry Cwiklik co-authored the UIMA collection processing developer’s guide and reference documents. He is the lead developer of the UIMA collection processing manager.

Yurdaer Doganata, together with Marshall Schor, formatted and assembled the SDK documentation set. Yurdaer is the manager of "Information Management solutions" at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center. His team is focused on UIMA component discovery and reuse and is responsible for UIMA development tooling.

Gabriele Dreckschmidt formatted and assembled parts of the documentation set. She is a member of the information development team within IBM Software Group.

Youssef Drissi authored the PEAR Packager documentation. He is UIMA software engineer focused on UIMA development tooling.

Edward Epstein reviewed various developer and reference documents. Eddie manages the "UIMA Frameworks" group at IBM at the T.J. Watson Research Center. His team is dedicated to the core UIMA framework including the analysis engine and collection processing architecture.

David Ferrucci authored the SDK Overview, the UIMA Conceptual Overview, and the FAQs. He is UIMA’s lead architect and the Senior Manager of the "Semantic Analysis and Integration" department at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. His department is primarily focused on development of advanced middleware and technologies for processing unstructured information, including UIMA.

Thilo Goetz authored the CAS Visual Debugger Guide and co-authored the CAS Reference. Thilo is a software engineer in IBM Software Group and the lead developer of UIMA’s common analysis system. He is focused on the productization of UIMA and its integration with search-related products.

Thomas Hampp reviewed the overall documentation. Thomas leads the UIMA product development work within IBM's Software Group.

Lev Kozakov authored the PEAR Installer documentation. He is a Research Staff Member at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research center focused on UIMA tooling and metadata representation.

Adam Lally authored the Annotator and Analysis Engine Developers Guide, the Application Developer's Guide, the CPE Configurator Guide, the Document Analyzer User's Guide, the XCAS Annotation Viewer's Guide, and the Eclipse setup instructions. He co-authored the Component Descriptor Reference and CPE Developer’s Guide. Adam is the lead developer of the UIMA framework.

Jonathan Lenchner authored the Component Descriptor Editor Guide. He is software engineer at IBM’s T.J. Watson research center and, among several key roles, he is the lead developer of UIMA Component Descriptor Editor.

Yosi Mass adapted documentation written for the Semantic Search Engine for the UIMA SDK. He is a Researcher at IBM's Haifa research center, and is the lead developer of UIMA's advanced semantic search capability.

Marshall Schor authored the JCas and JCasGen documentation and co-authored the CAS Reference. He reviewed and edited all of the UIMA SDK documentation. Marshall is the UIMA SDK development manager at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. He chairs the UIMA Architecture Board and is also the Program Manager of IBM’s Institute for Search and Text Analysis (ISTA).