Depending on the size of the annotator, you could consider contributing it to ctakes-core, or you could create another sub-project of ctakes -- and base it on one of the smaller and simpler (sub)projects.
New subprojects typically start within the sandbox subdirectory https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ctakes/sandbox/ In my institution's case, those pieces of information that you mention (Age etc) are already in databases that can be correlated with the free text -- do you have a use case for that kind of annotator? - James Masanz From: Piyush Jain [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 8:25 AM To: Masanz, James J.; [email protected] Subject: New Demographic information extractor Hi James, I am trying to add a new demographic annotator to existing cTAKES package. This annotator will extract all the demographic information like Age, Sex, Marital Status, Social History etc. Could you please suggest on how shall I start preparing this annotator? I am planning to add that Annotator to current cTAKES version, once everything is ready and tested. Your help would be much appreciated. Thanks. Regards, Piyush
