This document discusses sentiment analysis and how it can be applied using Apache Solr and UIMA. It provides an overview of sentiment analysis and defines key concepts. It then describes how Solr can be used to build search indexes and how UIMA can be used to integrate natural language processing tools for tasks like entity extraction and sentiment analysis. The document concludes with proposing a sentiment analysis application that uses various NLP techniques within Solr and UIMA to classify sentiment in text.