Hi Arohi, Welcome! To use cTAKES programmatically, I would suggest: 1) Take a look at the current Type System [1] as that will outline all of the available output that is supported in cTAKES. 2) Understand a bit about UIMA [2], the framework that cTAKES was built on top of. 3) Take a look at uimaFIT[3] as that will probably make access the data objects and running a pipeline much easier via java code. 4) Take a look at a simple example such as that just extracts a list of UMLS CUI's [4]
[1] http://ctakes.apache.org/user-faqs.html#what-are-the-available-attributes-types-in-ctakes [2] http://uima.apache.org [3] https://code.google.com/p/uimafit/ (in the process of being migrated to the UIMA project) [4] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ctakes/trunk/ctakes-clinical-pipeline/src/main/java/org/apache/ctakes/clinicalpipeline/runtime/BagOfCUIsGenerator.java I hope that helps... --Pei > -----Original Message----- > From: Arohi Kumar [mailto:ar...@mobipulse.in] > Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 4:13 AM > To: dev@ctakes.apache.org > Subject: Information Regarding cTakes API from Java Program > > Hello everyone, > > I am a newbie and am working on developing an application with Apache > cTakes 3.0. > > I have installed Apache cTakes on my local machine using the tutorial given at > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CTAKES/cTAKES+3.0+Develope > r+Install+Guide > . I have also downloaded cTakes resources and got my UMLS username and > password approved. I have tested the installaton by invoking CAS Visual > Debugger(CVD) from the command line, loading Analysis Engine as > AggregatePlaintextUMLSProcessor and running. I am interested in exploring > the different result fields that I am getting corresponding to the text that I > have given. *Please point me to some resources that will help me in > understanding the result. Also is the result in XML format?* > > My issue is regarding running this process(giving text and receiving results > after analyzing the text using AggregatePlaintextUMLSProcessor) from a Java > Program as it will be easier to automate*. Please point me to relevant > resources for doing this. * > > Thank you > Arohi
